The Silence of the Lambs 4K 1991 Ultra HD 2160p

The picture was released in 1991 and received 5 Oscars in five main nominations at once. In the center of the plot is the agent Clarissa, who needs to interrogate a dangerous criminal in order to better understand the psychology of maniacs. However, everything turns for her into a collision with her own trauma and the past.

The Silence of the Lambs 4K Review
Ask the statistics, and it will tell you that it is easier for a camel to crawl into the eye of a needle than for a movie shown at the beginning of the season to win the acclaim of the American Academy after its graduation, at the Oscars. Studios counting on awards tend to hold their production on purpose until winter, and forgetful academy members usually vote to keep running in theaters. In this sense, the 1992 ceremony was an exception.

Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, released in April 1991, took five prizes with seven nominations. A burst of justice unprecedented by Oscar standards: "Best Film", "Best Director", "Best Adapted Screenplay", "Best Female Lead and Male Lead Actors." Moreover, Anthony Hopkins won the prize despite the fact that he appears on the screen for a total of no more than sixteen minutes. In addition, for the first time, a bloody nightmare with a severed head, obscenely aesthetic ecorche and suits made of human skin were ranked among the bronze Oscar genres.

Topical Bore "John F. Kennedy. Shots in Dallas ", the melodramatic fantasy of" The Fisher King "and the subtle stylistic play of" Barton Finck "preferred a tightly tailored thriller about a maniac. But is it a genre? For example, the Scorsezian remake of Cape Fear, released in the same year, swept past all the awards with a breeze. I would like to say that in "The Silence of the Lambs" everything came together with everything: a police joke met with a manic psychoanalyst, rising Hollywood star Jodie Foster with a British acting school in the person of Anthony Hopkins. American cinema's obsession with psychosis was legalized by Hitchcock's Psycho, which was not filmed in the era of the Hayes Code, namely The Silence of the Lambs, which brought the psychopath out of the slasher basement.

Now the maniac must be refined, like a French art critic, and cold, like an alligator. Hopkins' glass gaze - the actor claimed that, playing the cannibal Hannibal, he relied on the image of HAL9000 from "A Space Odyssey 2001" - henceforth the standard for any film lover, and it doesn't matter that Lecter himself has already appeared on the wide screen in a very worthy "Human Hunter" Michael Mann. And the reference dwelling of a dangerous madman will be Buffalo Bill's dirty den - grandmother's belongings in the corners, sharp tools and ragged furniture.

The Silence of the Lambs became not just the main thriller of the decade, but a beacon, with which the course is still checked. Crimson tones spread across the screens, intellectual maxims echoed loudly in David Fincher's Seven, creaked awkwardly in Saw. However, paying tribute to the psycho-visual atmosphere of the film (the descent of Agent Starling into Dr. Lecter's basement - in fact, the meeting of the "superego" with the "id" - no matter how much you mimic, it will forever remain in the history of the most important film images), it should be noted that this wonderful macabre will survive could only on the basis of a paradoxically simple story.

If we digress from the leather mask of Hannibal, butterflies "death's head" and the FBI fanaticism, it turns out that on the screen for the thousandth time there are a beauty and a beast. She is warm, shy, in cheap shoes, he is smart, sharp, with non-standard culinary preferences. Two loneliness converge. America and Europe. The embryo of the world, yesterday's student, who is not taken seriously by the professional male community, and the crown of creation, rejected by society, but gained the highest freedom to fulfill any of its own desires. Here it would be to spin a tear melodrama about how two white crows are drawn to each other, and only the bars of the cage do not allow them to close their arms. "Just a little more, Clarissa, and some might think we have love." But, praise to the professionalism of Dr. Lecter, all the love here is exhausted by a powerful course of psychotherapy.