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Silence Of The Lamb Analysis
The silence of the lamb is a very interesting movie. This movie was published in the year 1991. Thomas Harris who learned about Ted Bundy, Gary M. Heidnick and Ed Gein, shaped the character of Buffalo Bill. Ed Gein was the most influential for the silence of the lamb. One significant tie between Gein and Bill was that Gein decided to become a woman after his mother’s passing in hopes to collecting body parts to build a “woman’s suit”, like Bill did.
I enjoyed the entire movie and I was really anxious to find out what would happen to Clarice since no one else could get through to Hannibal Lecter so that she could find out about the Buffalo Killer. This movie gave me much suspense to the storyline of Lecter and Buffalo Bill to the authorities pursuing him. I am a huge fan of the Hannibal “Cannibal” Lecter; he has done amazing work in
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He has assigned her to interview Hannibal “Cannibal” Lecter which most people wasn’t able to do, due to his refusal. Dr. Lecter was a psychiatrist and he was an incarcerated cannibalistic serial murder. Cannibalism is the practice of someone who devours the flesh of humans or the internal organs of human beings, which a person who studies it is a cannibal. This assignment that Starling was learning from related to the serial killer of Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill started out as a bad joke in Kansas City homicide. I would consider Buffalo Bill a serial murderer who kidnaps and murder his victims. A serial murderer is someone who kills three or more people due to abnormal psychological gratification. As presented thirty five minutes into the movie, he killed three or more victims then became lazy as Crawford mentioned. He would also skin his victims because it excited him and I’m guessing he has a motive to kill overweight women to make him a “woman

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