Review By Charles "The Silence Of The Lambs"
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster
In this fictional psychological thriller set in the early 1990s, the FBI must race against the clock to capture a serial killer. Clarice Starling (Foster) is a bright cadet at the FBI academy. She is called upon by her superiors to help catch Buffalo Bill, a serial killer that is abducting women at an alarming rate. Clarice interrogates the most dangerous killer in the psych hospital, the flesh eating psychiatrist Hannibal Lector (Hopkins), hoping that he can lead her to the killer before he strikes again.


Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Crime story: - catching/stopping killer
Horror film? Yes
Horror Plotlets: - mad guy with knife likes to slice
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - obsessed - mentally ill - wild
Hair color? - bald
Hair style - bald (man)
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Genius
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - red
Hair style
Body type - average (woman)
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes - wild - eccentric - mentally ill - emotionally unstable - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%
Hair color - bald
Hair type
Body type - average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Genius
Physique - average physique
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
Misc setting - prison - fort/military installation - building

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel... - in awe
How much use of techno gadgets? - 1 ()
Kind of violence: - mental battles - guns - knives
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity? - Some foul language
Is this movie based on a - book
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