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The Silence Of The Lambs bagged itself five major Oscars, including Best Picture, a feat unprecedented for what many people considered to be a ‘horror’ film. But a decade on, Silence has proven itself to be a classic thriller that fully deserved its gongs. With this reputation to live up to, MGM had to do something special with the DVD release, and it did so. From the slowly circling CGI recreation of Hannibal Lecter’s cell on the menu screen to the lengthy making-of documentary on the second disc, the DVD set is a quality act.
The story is familiar by now, but still has the power to chill. A serial killer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill’ (Levine) has been preying on women, starving and skinning them for his own nefarious purposes; imprisoned serial-killing psychiatrist Hannibal ‘the Cannibal’ Lecter (Hopkins) knows who Bill is, but won’t tell anyone. FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Foster) is sent to try and wheedle any clues she can out of Lecter, and as Buffalo Bill kidnaps his latest victim, the clock starts ticking while Clarice and Lecter play their electrifying mind games.
Hopkins of course gets the showy role, keeping Lecter from becoming a cartoon character with just the right amount of veiled menace (something that wouldn’t be true of Hannibal), but Foster is the one most deserving of the Oscar. Clarice is a diminutive women in the big, macho world of the FBI, but fights past all obstacles, including her own fears, to locate and take down the killer. In fact, its safe to say that she was a role model for a whole line of determined professional women in movies and TV who followed over the next few years, not least fellow fictional FBI agent Dana Scully.
On disc, The Silence Of The Lambs gets a superb video transfer (streets ahead of the old Region 1 Criterion DVD) which picks out all the detail hidden in the cold, forbiddingly photographed scenes.
Howard Shore’s haunting score is also well-served by the remastered soundtrack. If anything, time has made Silence’s story even more effective. There have been all kinds of serial killer films made since Demme’s film legitimised the genre, but none have been anywhere near as believable. The procedural aspects of the plot are fascinating in their almost Kubrickian unblinking detail, and the moments of violence, when they do come, still have the power to shock. But it’s character that’s the key to the film, and no serial killer movie since has had the same intensity as the scenes between Clarice and Hannibal.
Whether the extras really merited a second disc to themselves is perhaps debatable, but given the choice between this or reducing the picture quality of the film it’s really a no-brainer. The hour-plus documentary goes into fascinating depth about the film’s genesis and making; although Hopkins contributes quite a bit, especially notable by their absence are Demme and Foster, who appear only in old interviews. The way that everybody reverently talks about Demme in the past tense is unnerving enough to make you wonder if he’s actually still alive (he is). Considering how important the film was to the careers of both Foster and Demme, it’s surprising that they didn’t pipe up about it.
The deleted scenes are variable, some of them being literally just seconds long, and it’s easy to see why they ended up on the cutting room floor. There are a few extra Hannibal scenes though, including one in the aftermath of his escape in the ambulance where he has a good old chuckle about his new-found freedom.
The Silence Of The Lambs is an undoubted modern classic, given the treatment it deserves on DVD. We offer a toast to MGM – with, of course, a glass of nice Chianti…
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good review. I bought the region one dvd and it's only on one disc but it seems to have everything that the region 2 has and thats on two discs. Any ideas?
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