The Silence of the Lambs

In April 2020, I watched The Silence of the Lambs on DVD. The movie was released in 1991. I have not watched it at theaters but I have done it several times on TV monitors. It is obviously one of the greatest suspense movies and it impresses me whenever I watch it. 

Clarice is a new agent of the FBI which is pursuing a psychotic serial murderer. Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist and imprisoned cannibalistic serial murderer. The movie follows the interactions between the two of them. 

The scenes where Jodie Foster as Clarice was meeting with Anthony Hopkins as Lecter were really worth watching. Both of them won the Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively. I believed that their performances deserved the awards. 

Jodie was 28 years old at the release. She was quite beautiful with intelligence for a young lady and was really charming. I enjoyed watching her wonderful acting which was hot and cool to the end. By the way, I have not thought of her as sexually attractive. I had not known why, but I recognized the reason when I heard about her sexuality. All the same, she is absolutely beautiful and has given a superb performance in all the movies that I have watched. 

Anthony Hopkins gave an excellent performance as Lecter, too. He was diminutive but he could create a horrible atmosphere only with his voices, expressions and movements. Dr. Lecter was a homicidal maniac but looked like a philosopher, like John Doe who Kevin Spacey played in Seven. The doctor, moreover, seemed to really have great intelligence that a common psychopath never has. Incidentally, I have not watched a trashy movie that he appears in. Sir Anthony Hopkins must be quite capable of ascertaining whether or not the script is wonderful.