The
Silence of the Lambs
(1991)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Themes
- Call
- Clarice's summons from Jack Crawford.
- Clean/Unclean
- Anthony Hopkins has said that he patterned the voice of Hannibal Lecter after the voice of H.A.L. in 2001: A Space Odyssey because HAL was a very "clean" and orderly and would cooly kill anyone who got in the way of his goals. If there is one thing that Hannibal Lecter could not stand, it was "messiness" in his life, and he was willing to go to unspeakably horrifying lengths to keep his life "orderly". Sometimes evil is our attempt to keep our lives "clean".
- Covetousness
- And what do people covet, Clarice? They begin to covet the things that are closest to them.
- Father Figures
- Clarice's identity-formation in terms of negative father-figure Hannibal Lecter, positive father-figure Jack Crawford, and the specter of her dead father.
- (Jungian) Shadow
Figures
- Clarice struggles with Hannibal Lecter - a representation of the shadow of her personality.
- Teacher
- Clarice develops a mutual relationship with her teacher Jack Crawford. (As she does, in many ways, with her teacher, shadow figure Hannibal Lecter.)
- Call
