Analysis - Silence of The Lambs

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Silence of the lambs - thriller, horror (psychological), mystery 


 

Iconography (the typical aspects show): 

 

  • Shadows 
  • Cliffhangers 
  • Character growth (shown through clarice) 
  • Multiple points of view 
  • Ticking clock (or short span of time) 
  • Likeable protagonist 
  • Lowkey lighting 
  • Tension
  • Silhouettes - enigma and mystery for the audience 
  • Shadows build up fear within audiences by instigating that the protagonist is being watched by the antagonist.  



*some movies from the broad thriller genre
 


Setting:

 

  • Dark, scary places such as dark woods, abandoned warehouses with limited lighting. The absence of light signifies the abundance of evil.
  • Darkness creates an eerie feeling of mystery making the audience try and think of what’s around the corner - unable to see 
  • Feel tension as a key factor of the movies involves the building of curiosity and suspense to frighten the audience or essentially, “thrill” them

 

Primary features:

 

  • Strong feelings of excitement, anxiety, tension, suspense, fear and other similar emotions in its readers or viewers. 
  • Lots of silence and then abrupt sounds
  • Camera focuses on graphic aspects (shown through the long onscreen time of the graphic images)  

 

Theme:

 

  • Mental health 
  • Good vs evil 
  • Nurtured evil 

 

Characters:

 

  • Amateur cops
  • Intelligent killer
  • Psychopathic killer
  • Cops vs deranged killer 

 

Silence of the lambs:

 

  • Set in a basement of an ordinary house (therefore seeming unlikely as though someone is held captive)
  • Devious cannibal (viewed as the antagonist at the start) is in prison and knows information about a serial killer currently on the loose and  is the most wanted. 
  • FBI agent takes on the case and visits him in prison and gets information out of him, in exchange for her information (trauma) 

 

 

Thriller:

 

  • Crime procedural 
  • Mystery 
  • Psychological thriller 
  • Horror — through imagery and Lowkey lighting 
  • Suspense 

 

 

Narrative:

 

Binary opposites:

 

  • Soul vs evil
  • Intelligence vs unintelligent
  • Men vs women 
  • Calm vs frantic 

 

Unrestricted narrative: where the audience knows more than the characters 

  • To create suspense
  • When lecter gets a pin from the pen (zoom in on pen to denote that) 

 

Restricted narrative: when the audience and the character learns at the same time 

  • When we first meet Buffalo bill — face isn’t revealed 

 

Depth of narrative:

 

  • Subjective — clarice’s memories are shown 

 

Plot and story:

 

  • Plot: in the FBI’s woods 
  • Story: Hannibal and kill bill and what they do 

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