gotta love the play on words in the title

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2011)

Silence of the Lambs literally is a reference to Clarice Starling and her childhood. I love that Lector states if she saves the current victim it might silence the lambs screaming in her mind. This of course is from when she was raised on farm land before going to an orphanage. She sees the farmer killing off the spring lambs and wants to save them. She then steels one and, when later found, is sent to the orphanage and can still "hear the lambs screaming" as she finds the victims of Buffalo Bill. This really sets you up for the rest of the movie after it is explained in the conversation between Lector and Starling.