Transformation of the characters in Silence of the Lambs

Samson 2022-04-22 07:01:01

In the film Silence of the Lambs, lambs, skeleton moths are all very important images. The lamb represents childhood fears and bad memories, and the skull moth represents the desire to transcend and transform childhood expectations. Doctor Ryda, Chrissy, and Buffalo Bill all undergo transformations in the film, with Dr. Ryda still high, Kris succeeds, and Buffalo Bill fails.
Doctor Ryda, an excellent psychiatrist, turned into an ogre. Not disgusted with cannibalism means losing part of human nature, but still maintaining normal thinking logic, restraint, etiquette human social skills, and still possessing a unique and complete psychological and behavioral pattern. Dr. Leda still possesses excellent psychoanalytic ability, and he uses foul language, word games, and situational exchange for psychological suggestion and empathy. When Chrissy first visited the mental hospital, she learned through the documents that she was not an official FBI, indicating that his observation ability was very keen. Hoping to see the outside world after 8 years in a mental hospital, she works with Chrissy in solving the Bill Buffalo case and eventually escapes. In the final episode, he takes a fancy to an "old friend", so there is suspense as to whether he will continue to cannibalize in his new life in general.
Chris is a traumatized childhood and the origin of the Silence of the Lambs. In working with Dr. Leda, I think she was appreciated by Dr. Leda. Through "exchange" and the use of empathy, Dr. Leda helped Chriss successfully resolve the congressman's daughter and also rescued her spiritual trauma. The final rescue of the congressman's daughter: darkness, rock music, barking dogs, and people's desperate cries for help is similar to a reenactment of Chrissy's escape from fear at the ranch. She killed Bill, pierced through the plank, and a series of scenarios where the sun shone in was also the process of her soul being rescued. In addition, Chrissy was actually influenced by Dr. Leida's psychological suggestion. At the celebration banquet, when Chrissy shook hands with Crawford to say goodbye, a ring was put on the ring finger of her right hand, indicating her defense against Crawford. In any case, spiritually, her trauma has been rescued and her spiritual transformation has been achieved.
Buffalo Bill is a psychopathic reality executor. Unlike Chris, who is silent about her childhood trauma, she carries out serial killings in public, and uses actions and rituals to expect to achieve reality transformation. Obviously, he needs to kill endlessly or be captured, neither can achieve the transformation he wants, and he fails.
On the topic of transformation, Dr. Leda has sufficient professional knowledge and can heal others, but he cannot heal himself. He has a sense of frustration and a constant denial of self, which leads to the collapse of his benign personality, Keli Si is a persevering person and a person who knows restraint. In her interactions with Dr. Leda, she was in line with Dr. Leda's judgment of a benign personality, so she was helped. I figured that even if Kris couldn't achieve the transformation, she would still be harmless. 10 years ago, Buffalo Bill's lover expressed fear that Bill killed a homeless man to cut his skin and cut his clothes. Dr. Leda couldn't do anything about it, so he killed him and put him in the garage. 10 years later, Buffalo Bill still has an assumption about his own gender, and still can't realize the transformation.

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  • Jarret 2021-10-20 18:58:15

    "Combining horror and detective films with great ingenuity, using Hitchcock-style suspense techniques and psychological analysis of modern horror films, the audience is introduced into the symbolic subconscious world. The police wanted to catch a murderous madman. And having to resort to another murderous madman, this in itself has a strong sense of absurdity and irony. The film has been searching for the source of the horror of human society, and finally came up with a "due to the problem of order itself, and in turn The conclusion of "criminal cases endangering order" makes the film have a certain social significance."

  • Clement 2021-10-20 18:58:01

    Revisit the classics and discover how many movies have borrowed from it now. . . I really like the metaphor of the silent lamb, although I am not sure what it implies. .

The Silence of the Lambs quotes

  • Pilcher: What do you do when you're not detecting, Agent Starling?

    Clarice Starling: I try to be a student, Dr. Pilcher.

    Pilcher: Ever go out for cheeseburgers and beer? The amusing house wine?

    Clarice Starling: Are you hitting on me, doctor?

    Pilcher: Yes.

  • Clarice Starling: Catherine Martin?

    Catherine Martin: Yes?

    Clarice Starling: FBI! You're safe!

    Catherine Martin: Safe? Shit! Get me outta here!

    Clarice Starling: You're all right, Catherine. Now, where is he?

    Catherine Martin: How the fuck should I know? Just get me outta here!

    Clarice Starling: Catherine, you've gotta be quiet! Now, shut that dog up!

    Catherine Martin: Just get me outta here!

    Clarice Starling: Catherine, I'm gonna get you outta there, but right now you listen to me. I've gotta leave this room, I'll be right back.

    Catherine Martin: NO! DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE YOU FUCKIN' BITCH, NO! Don't you leave me here, this guy is fucking crazy!