still shocks me. No matter how much I’m convinced that I love it, no matter how many scenes I can practically recite verbatim, upon each repeat viewing I’m never not astounded by how fucking good this movie is. It’s always better than I remembered, a film that manages to be compulsively watchable despite its insistence that you ponder unimaginable horrors and regular presentation of can’t-unsee-able images.
‘If the movie were not so well made, indeed, it would be ludicrous,’ Roger Ebert wrote in his review pegged to the film’s release.And yet while anyone with pop-cultural literacy already knows this stuff several times over,is still effectively harrowing. “If the movie were not so well made, indeed, it would be ludicrous,” Roger Ebertin his review pegged to the film’s release. I agree.
The performances are ingenious. In a commentary originally recorded in 1994 but featured in Criterion’s, director Jonathan Demme notes that Jodie Foster is underrated as a physical actor during a climactic scene when she has to load a gun while stunned and having just been knocked down on the floor. More subtle is the autopsy scene that she winces through while rattling off the young female victim’s physical attributes.
is an established classic, a virtually unanimous favorite of moviegoers, no matter on what side of the high/low cultural spectrum their tastes fall. This is settled and unimpeachable. Of particular note is the care all involved take to sketch out Clarice’s interior life, specifically the parts of it formed by being a woman in a world full of condescending men. As an FBI trainee, she is stared down, solicited, and at one point, ejaculated on by the men she encounters.
While dissecting the notion of “male gaze” was still largely confined to academic circles, Demme, his screenwriter Ted Tally , and especially Foster were presenting what it looked and felt like to a mass audience. Decades later, the majority of movies being made still don’t come close to interrogating male gaze.And yet, it was still very much a product of its time. It is the Buffalo Bill character that warrants the most scrutiny in a modern viewing. The transformation-obsessed Bill’s m.o.
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