Silence of the Lambs

The name sounds just as weird as the movie is. It's kind of an oldie, yet even today I hear people sometimes talking about it. When I was with one of my friends, I decided to go up to my sister's room and pick one of the movies. I was looking up and down the racks, trying to pick out something that I thought I would like, yet I couldn't seem to find anything. Most of the movies were ones that I had already seen, and others just looked like something I could easily fall asleep to. All of a sudden, I saw Silence of the Lambs and immediately knew we should watch it. It was one of the few that I hadn't seen AND it seemed really interesting; mystery and crime, my favorite!
The movie is about this FBI woman in training who is picked to solve a crime on a serial killer, known as "Buffalo Bill". This killer supposedly kills woman, skins them, and leaves them in a variety of places for the police and such to find. The trainee, Clarice Starling, first goes and talks with Hannibal lecter who used to be a well-known psychiatrist but became a cannibal, and tries to get information out of him about the case. The movie goes through all these small details that, if missed, will throw you off in the end. The ending is, of course, twisted in its own way.
The one thing that stuck out to me that made the movie so scary and frightening was how the director filmed it. There aren't any jump out scenes or loud surprising noises, but the angle of how they filmed the characters makes you so uncomfortable. They film straight on into the peoples faces when they talk, making it look like they are talking right at you even though they are talking to whoever is in the scene. For instance, when Claurice goes to talk with hannibal lecter, each one of their faces is slowly, but surely, zoomed in on, until it fills up the whole screen. I literally had to look away at one point because it was so overpowering.
It all was such a well thought out movie and very clever. I know some of the hannibal movies today are pretty good, so I've heard, but this is the only one that I have seen. I guess I better go and see those other movies now because I loved this one!