The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]
by Jonathan Demme
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Brooke Smith, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted LevineDirector: Jonathan Demme
Brand: Sony
Producer: Edward Saxon
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Producer: Grace Blake
Producer: Kenneth Utt
Producer: Ronald M. Bozman
Writer: Ted Tally
Writer: Thomas Harris
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Cantonese (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); English (Original Language), DTS 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-03-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Blu-ray Reviews of The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: THE PERFECT MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
There are few perfect movies made in this world. Some movies work well with one group and some with another. But for the most part, movies are pretty much average to slightly above, enjoyed but forgotten or tossed aside for the next big thing. The perfect movie is rare indeed. When I try to think of one only two come to mind now. The first is THE GODFATHER, a film filled with great story, acting, directing, writing, and every tiny aspect of production that makes a perfect film. The second is the one I just finished watching: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
I know that I enjoyed this film when I first saw it back in 1991. I know that I thought it was a good movie and that everyone involved had done a great job. It has just been released in blu-ray format and that is what I watched. And to my surprise, after all these years, I found that not only was it a great movie, it was a perfect film.
For those who don't know. The story revolves around an FBI recruit named Clarice Starling (Jodi Foster) who has been called to the offices of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the head of Behavioral Sciences for the FBI. It seems that he's looked over her record and asks her help in a research project going on involving interviews with convicted and imprisoned serial killers. The man he wants her to interview is Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).
Lecter is the worst of the worst when it comes to serial killers. A cold blooded and calculating murderer, he not only planned in advance the deaths of his victims, he made a point of eating various body parts, thus his nickname of Hannibal the Cannibal.
Secluded in a special prison cell in the basement of a home for the criminally insane, Lecter at first seems hesitant to answer any of Clarice's questions. But as their conversation progresses, he seems to ease up on his view of her. And eventually he offers to answer her questionnaire in return for her answering his questions as well. It's a mind game he plays as he plays mental chess with her.
Reporting back to Crawford, Clarice realizes that there was no real information for a study being asked of Lecter. She was used to get information from him that would help in the solving of a current case with a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill due to his skinning his victims. She was sent in blind so that Lecter wouldn't know what was going on. Now Crawford brings her in to help with the case.
As this story unfolds we are also privy to the tale of Buffalo Bill, a killer who has a movie for the skinning of his victims. It seems that he is trying to make a suit to wear made of the body parts of his victims. And he's taken a new captive that he is slowly starving while he waits for her skin to loosen up.
The daughter of a senator (Diane Baker), her mother pleads for her life on television. Interference with the FBI results when the egotistical head of the prison where Lecter is kept gives him information that he was used in return for help from Lecter to catch the killer. Lecter sets his own conditions and is transported to another state, a more open prison for the moment, in return for his assistance.
At this location, Clarice visits Lecter in the hopes that he will listen to her as she lets him know more about her. In return for her honesty, Lecter provides her with clues if she will only put the pieces together.
After Clarice leaves, Lecter attacks his guards in a well thought out plan, and escapes from the prison amid the tons of police officers surrounding the location.
Clarice follows Lecter's clues as do the rest of the FBI. But it is the particular clues he provided her that lead her to the home of Buffalo Bob. Whether or not she will realize this and if she can accomplish the feat of capturing another elusive criminal, all while being a cadet still, makes for the most climactic part of the movie.
This movie works on every level. It works as a tale of a young woman striving to make a name for herself in a world dominated by men. It works in the tale of a sympathetic homicidal maniac aiding her in her quest. It works as a police procedural story. And above all it works as pure entertainment. There is no time in this film when you feel compelled to look at the clock to see if it's almost over. You are transfixed in the tale going on before your eyes.
The film garnered enough attention to have a sequel and two prequels based on other books by the author, Thomas Harris. Interestingly enough, the character of Lecter had been used already in a film version of Harris' first novel featuring him, THE RED DRAGON, but filmed as MANHUNTER. But it was Hopkins portrayal that captured audiences enough that they kept coming back for more.
You may have seen this film when it came out. You may have watched it when it hit DVD shelves. But this is a movie to be watched over and over again, offering something new with each viewing. And in the blu-ray format you get to see it in pristine condition.
For fans of Hopkins this release also offers something you can use at home. A piece that can be used on your answering machine with Hopkins as Lecter giving the reply to phone callers.
So what makes this film a pefect picture? Everything. We have a story that captivates us and holds our attention, giving us clues along the way but not so much that we can figure everything out ahead of our heroine. We have superb acting as seen not only in the in your face Hopkins as Lecter but the subtle touches used by Foster as Clarice, an agent in training in over her head yet rising to the occasion.
The directing is Jonathan Demme at the top of his game, combining all the elements needed for a good film from pulling the performances from the actors to subtle musical scores that highlight what we are watching to editing the film with the right scenes in the right places to clothing that seems appropriate to each character involved. He takes the reins here and holds them firmly, pulling out the best of everyone involved.
Not only do we get to watch the story unfold, we get to feel for each and every character. This even included Hannibal Lecter. What seems like a terrible monster offers glimpses of a refined soul at the center. He may not be someone you want to have dinner with (or be a part of) but he is an interesting killer as opposed to the brutal stalk and slash types. And Hopkins deserved praise here, not only for bringing the character to life but for reviving his own careerr in the process.
The look and feel of this movie captivates from the first moments until the last, which offers a funny twist from Lecter himself. Rarely is a viewer entertained from beginning to end, never looking to see what time it is or how much longer the film has to go. This is such a film. This film holds you in its grasp until the credits roll. And that is the true sign of a perfect film.
Description of The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]
A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she'll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but also an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!Based on Thomas Harris's novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific circumstances. Demme, a filmmaker with a uniquely populist vision (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), also spent his early years making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat), and he hasn't forgotten the significance of tone, atmosphere, and the unsettling nature of a crudely effective close-up. Much of the film, in fact, consists of actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to another seem terribly dangerous. --Tom Keogh
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