Maybe the sign is repetitious, but it's a fave movie of mine. Every time I see it, I think of the evils/atheists here. Something they do is
offensive. Is it as bad as eviseration? Yes (not in a physical sense but spiritual). But they'll never admit it.
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Analysis
In the years following its release,
The Silence of the Lambs was subject to much film criticism regarding its themes of human sexuality and sexual politics.
[11] Throughout the film, Clarice Starling's gender is emphasized as a distinguishing feature as she is a minority amongst her numerous male peers, though film scholar
Barry Forshaw notes that "any feminist agenda is never bluntly formulated verbally."
[12]
Some
gay male critics and feminists felt that the film's portrayal of Buffalo Bill negatively associated the
LGBT community with deviance, psychopathy, and violence.
[13] Despite this, Bill's sexual orientation is never explicitly stated in the film, and Lecter expressly states Bill is "not really transsexual".
[14] Demme responded that Buffalo Bill "wasn't a gay character. He was a tormented man who hated himself and wished he was a woman because that would have made him as far away from himself as he possibly could be." Demme added that he "came to realize that there is a tremendous absence of positive gay characters in movies".
[15]
In a 1992 interview with
Playboy magazine, the
feminist and
women's rights advocate
Betty Friedan stated: "I thought it was absolutely outrageous that
The Silence of the Lambs won four [
sic] Oscars. […] I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shown. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the
evisceration, the skinning alive of women.
That is what I find offensive. Not the
Playboy centerfold."
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