Amazon.com: The Silence of the Lambs: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald: Amazon   Digital Services LLC
By Kira S. on December 6, 2016
Format: Amazon Video Verified Purchase
I *never* give five stars except for classics, but this film has held up over the years and has become a true classic, in my opinion. Yes, it has some disturbingly violent scenes and it deals with some of the dregs of humanity. And yet, by shining the light in those dark corners where the human cockroaches live, it shows us what it can mean to be human if we are not afforded a decent upbringing or help when mental health issues *begin*, rather than when they get out of hand. It also raises the question of whether some people are just born evil and are beyond redemption.
Juxtaposed against the worst of humanity is Jodie Foster as the fresh-faced, hyperintelligent yet somehow innocent FBI agent, who can look at the worst that one human being can do to another and still continue her mission to find and stop the perpetrator. Add Scott Glenn as her world-weary yet still optimistic mentor and you have a team that got their man, even if other forces let another evil slip through their fingers.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie. Somehow, I never grow tired of it. Whenever I am flipping through channels on TV and I find it, I will start watching it wherever it happens to be at the moment, even if it is in the middle or near the end. With most movies I *have* to watch them from the beginning but I know this one so well I don't need to fill in the blanks. Sometimes it concerns me that I am so fascinated by such a dark movie about extremely disturbed characters, but I have always been fascinated by the workings of the human mind. This represents, for the most part, one end of the spectrum, with Clarice Starling's character as the opposite end. Good against evil - a tale as old as humanity. It's no wonder so many people find this fascinating.