The Silence of The Lambs

I have seen this movie a lots of times, but it's still great to watch over and over again. 

The best performance of Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector (Hannibal the Cannibal). There's a chemistry between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins when they both are in a scene, you can see that both have physical wounds and in a way understand each other. 

This movie has won 5 oscars, for best director, best adapted screenplay, best screenplay and ofcourse best actor and actress.

The Plot:

Clarice Starling is giving a task by Jack Crawford (of the behavioral Science unit) to go the the fames Hannibal the Cannibal, and presenting him with a VICAP questionnaire. See meets Dr Lector who's restrained behind thick glass.

While this happens on the otherside Buffalo Bill abducts a daughter of the united states senator.

Clarice then accompanies Crawford to West Virginia and performs an autopsy on a victim of Buffalo Bill, and finds in the throat of the victim a Death's-head Hawkmoth. Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Hannibal Lecter a fake deal promising a prison transfer if he provides information that helps profile Buffalo Bill and rescue Catherine Martin.

But Hannibal wants personal information from Clarice, inexchange for information, he has on Buffalo Bill. Unaware to both Starling and Lector, Dr. Frederick Chilton tapes the conversation and after revealing Starling's deal as a scam, offers to transfer Lecter in exchange for a deal of his own making. Lecter agrees and following a flight to Tennessee where he gives false information of Buffalo Bills real name.

Starling travels to Lecter's special cell in a local Tennessee courthouse, where she confronts him about the false information. Here Starling, tells Hannibal about her worst childhood memorys. Hours later, Lecter escapes from his cell, attacking his two guards. After being notified of Lecter's escape Clarica takes the case file and looks at the notes that Hannibal made before realizing that the first victim Frederica Bimmel, knew Bill in real life before he killed her. Starling travels to Bimmel's hometown and discovers that Bimmel was a tailor and has dresses with templates identical to the patches of skin removed from Buffalo Bill's victims. Realizing that Buffalo Bill is a tailor fashioning a "woman suit" of real skin.

Scenes I like the most:

• The first time Clarice meets Hannibal Lector, the fear in her eyes, when walking to the cell and meeting him. Anthony Hopkins stands like a wax statue. Then Anthony says 'may I see your credentials, closer please, closerr. He looks at her very good before looking at her badge, those eyes.... 

Quote...

You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed - pure West Virginia. What does your father do? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you. All those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere, getting all the way to the F...B...I.

and ofcourse the famous quote

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chi-an-ti.

• Tennesse courthouse. When Clarice tells about her childhood, the way she told him the whole story beautiful, see the eyes of Lector when he thanks her.

Lecter: No. It's your turn to tell me, Clarice. You don't have any more vacations to sell. Why did you leave that ranch?

Clarice: Doctor, we don't have any more time for any of this now.  Lecter: But we don't reckon time the same way, do we, Clarice? This is all the time you'll ever have. Clarice: Later. Now please, listen to me. We've only got five... Lecter: NO! I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...? Clarice (tears begin forming in her eyes): And one morning, I just ran away. Lecter: No 'just,' Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time? Clarice: Early, still dark. Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it? Clarice: I heard a strange noise.  Lecter: What was it? Clarice: It was - screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice. Lecter: What did you do? Clarice: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to. Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see? Clarice: Lambs. The lambs were screaming. Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs? Clarice: And they were screaming.  Lecter: And you ran away? Clarice: No. First I tried to free them. I-I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run. Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?  Clarice: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could. Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice? Clarice: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but - he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again. Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice? Clarice: They killed him.

• The escape of Hannibal
• When the FBI think they found the killer and a flower delivery guy rings the bell twice.  So thrilling god..