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... In "Shadow," the heroine takes a deep breath and a full measure of her uncles atrocities, and decides she can -- must -- accept the pain and risk of facing the monster in him. ...
Those two films come to mind while considering a new feature focusing on a heroine coping in a darkness cast by a psychotic monster. Jonathan Demmes "The Silence of the Lambs" finds a young, female FBI trainee -- in the early stages of physically and psychologically armoring herself against the worst in humans -- risking her soul, as in Hitchcocks film, by reaching an understanding with an astonishingly cruel, habitual killer. ...
At heart a good detective story, "The Silence of the Lambs" is rich in detail and clever in providing characters, even the most peripheral, with memorable shadings. ... Because on the other side of horrors face, he suggests, is us, more sane and more alive for having learned directly from the monster. ... It is impossible to believe he can go back to being, in the strictest sense, the filmmaker he was before "Silence. ... A film like "The Silence of the Lambs" can only be richer for the willingness of its collaborators to risk more than success.
Approximate Word count = 878
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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