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发帖数: 60932 | 1 Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) now $6.99 on Amazon:
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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.
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