Review of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Everybody- — 09 Jun 2020

The best film of it's kind, there has been many undeserved Oscar wins in history but none of this films five are among them. Anthony Hopkins is so memorable people think of him as the primary antagonist, he stole the show too such an extent they made it into an entire franchise solely based around him, they give him a leading actor Oscar an award he shouldn't have even been eligible for considering he's only onscreen for 16 minutes but they didn't care.

Jodie Foster also deserves her recognition giving an absolutely stellar performance as the FBI trainee Clarice Starling, the movie uses under utilised filming techniques to draw it's audience in like getting it's actors to deliver lines directly into camera (a very unorthodox method considering the very first thing actors tell you not too do is look at the camera.) it's very effective here and should be done more in films.

There is analysis videos on YouTube that go in depth into the editing and camerawork during the Clarice and Lector scenes and show the various techniques used to make those scenes some of the best in film history. A masterpiece of a movie with the best end credits sequence I've ever seen.