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NTERTAINMENT 'Madness permanently engraved THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS DIRECTED BY JONATHAN DEMME. NOW AVAILABLE ON VIDEO. Thrillers are perhaps the single most difficult genre of film to make work, the audience must be frightened... thrilled. Above all, there are the problems of choos- ing the right topics -- audiences must be unnerved by the happen- ings on screen, It happened in 1960 with Alfred Hitchcock's famous black and white film Psycho, and again in 1973 with the supernatural thriller The Exorcist. Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) was far and away the finest combination of horror/thriller ever to hit the screen, establishing Spiclberg as a great director, and collecting an Oscar nomination for best picture. More importantly, Jaws proves that for a film 10 be frightening we do not need the ridiculous hockey masked murderers we have today. The Silence of the Lambs, just available on video is the finest thriller ever made, perhaps the best movie of 1991, and quite hon- mestly, the most terrifying film I have ever seen. Released earlier this year, the film racked up close to $150 million at lain"in- the history of the movies, because he is so very 'human. Think of the recent killings in Milwaukee over the summer, when it was discovered Jeffrey Dahlmef was a mass murderer, and you begin to see why Silence of the Lambs the box office, and generated Oscar! at the flicks talk almost from the day of its release. john foote The monster in this film is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, imprisoned for his deeds in a state jail for the insane. Nicknamed 'Hannibal the Cannibal' for rea- sons that become obvious, Lecter is a genius with a super computer mind that-blows IQ tests off the screen, He is a convicted serial killer, with a taste for human flesh, and a gift for probing into the minds of those around him, care- fully working to find their weak- nesses. Hannibal Lecter is, without question, the most frightening vil- 50 terrifying. \ order to gain insight into the mind of a serial killer, but also to see if he may know who the killer is. Starling, as her name suggests, is a resilient, tough little lady, with sense enough to fear Lecter, but with curiosity enougho find him fascinating. Behind the thick plexi-glass prison, he begins to dissect the young lady's mind, giving her Iclues to the As frig g as the real life happenings in Milwaukee may be, Silence of the Lambs is very much a film; entertaining, and positively terrifying, but still a movie. The story concerns the FBI's search for a serial killer nick- named Buffalo Bill, (he skins his victims); using a trainee, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) to help them. She is sent to interview Dr. Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), in gala Funny, eh Da Legendary Canadian comic Dave Broadfoot was the featured entertainment at last Thursday's g Memorial g dinner for S Church Hall In Port Peg, Public Library. Mr. Broadfioot used all his best jokes to elicit giggles galore from the near sell out crowd at Immaculate Conception Catholic y. The dinner was catered deliciously by Patti's Own Kitchen, and the ye? raffles and auctions boasted a daz- zling array of tempting articles - from original artwork to evenings on the town. But the real star of the show was the library, which received thousands of dollars to buy books and make Scugog's library even better. 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More so than any film before it, Silence of the Lambs explores the mind of the truly psychotic, yet ironically both serial killers in this film are drastically different. Lecter, brilliantly portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, is a courteous, always polite doctor, shame of her past. Yet she probes carefully into his warped mind, getting half answers and ama- grams that begin to aid her in the search for Buffalo Bill, knowing full well Lecter is toying with her. Jonathan Demme has crafted a film that could very easily win best picture next year at the Oscars. Anthony Hopkins seems a shoo-in for best actor, and Jodie Foster likely will grab a best actress nomination. Watch care- fully the film's editing process, in particular the scene where Foster arrives at the wrong door: it is sus- pense build-up at its very best. Usually a director of off-beat films fog a limited audience, Demme has become a major force with this stunning thriller. Of course, there is violence. There are moments of true horror. But they never once take the film over. You come away thinking of the gleaming madness in Hopkins' hyper intelligent eyes, c of his crimes, As he questions Starling, one can see those bright eyes piercing her through to the very soul, slowly and deliberately making her vulnerable to him. Yet we find, in a startling twist, that the mad doctor is also self serving to an extent that is downright scary. In a dramatic contrast, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) is a warped homosexual, who wants to be a woman, therefore murders young women for their skins Unlike Lecter, he is not the emo- tional nor intellectual match for Starling. Levine's performance is riveting, he portrays a true psy- chotic in such an alarming way, you'll find him hard to shake Lecter will haunt your night- mares forever In the central role of Clarice Starling, Jodie Foster is again superb. A tough southern girl try- ing to shake her roots, she finds in Lecter all her worst fears con- firmed, a man who knows her weaknesses, who senses her with the thoughts of destruction that possess his mind. Never are you thinking of the blood, but rather of the strange cat and mouse game unfolding before our eyes Foster is astonishing through- out, yet she stands Sut in one strong scene. She is the observer at an autopsy, and for a brief moment she takes on the faces and reactions cach of us would have had in tht situation. Her face becomes a mask of pain, horror, sadness, for the tragic sense of loss. Never before has a film so brilliantly portrayed this type of goodness, nor in Lecter's case, this form of evil. It is, in every way, a brilliant movie. One of the year's very best. 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