"Silence of the Lambs" is a movie based on finding a serial killer.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2011)

"Silence of the Lambs" is a movie based on finding a serial killer. During the search for the killer, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) (The Silence of the Lambs, 1990-2011) enlists a student from the FBI's academy Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) by Jack Crawford (played by Scott Glenn). Clarice is one of the top students at the academy, and Jack feels that she is the key to getting an incarcerated murderer to help find the killer. Sen. Ruth Martin's (played by Diane Baker) daughter Catherine (played by Brooke Smith) kidnapped by the serial killer and everyone is doing everything they can following leads to save her. This serial killer finds girls who are a certain body size in order to use their skin, which does not become known until later in the movie. Clarice gains some trust with the Dr. Hannibal Lector a very intelligent, yet deranged individual who kills and eats his victims' body parts. Clarice plays Dr. Lectors game of "Quick pro quo" and answers his question to each of his questions. Playing the game she is gaining his trust and following all of the leads he gives her, she finds that there is a deal between Sen. Martin's office and the government which is then signed by Dr. Lector with the doctor at the prison ward responsible for Dr. Lector's (Demme, 1991). Dr. Chilton (played by Anthony Heald) is an arrogant person who needs to make himself more important than he is. Therefore, in doing so he allows Dr. Lector to escape shortly after he is transfer to a holding cell built in the middle of a gymnasium. Meanwhile, Clarice and the FBI are following leads as to where the senator's daughter is. Clarice ends up in one location while the FBI ends up in another. This is the awesome scene in the movie where Clarice is at the door of Jame' Buffalo Bill' Gumb (played by Ted Levine) the house appears to be a normal house from the outside view, however, once she is inside the use of the lighting is spectacular. Clarice starts to question Buffalo Bill whom then starts to get nervous then tries to shoot Clarice. During the chase of Buffalo Bill, she is lead to the basement, which is more of a dungeon with and old well present. That is where he keeps the girls he takes until he makes sure their skin is perfect for his use. In the dark, Clarice feeling her way around while Buffalo Bill is where night vision goggles. The filming of this scene must have been very difficult because if any lighting were incorrectly used there would have been shadowing cast thus, losing the appearance of total darkness. The ending of this scene is a justified shooting of the killer Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb. The ending of the movie moreover you realize the true impact that Clarice had on Dr. Lector who is still loose, when he calls her to congratulate her on her graduation from the FBI Academy (Demme, 1991). This movie is similar to the movie "Green River Killer" (2005), in the aspect of the determination to apprehend the killers (Lommel, 2005). Agent Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) and Detectives Dawson and Cole (Green River Killer) show the same type of fortitude in the cases portrayed in these two movies.