"Silence of the lambs"

Silence of the lambs- Sound


A serial killer known as Buffalo Bill is murdering women, and even worse, leaving them partially skinned. FBI guru Jack Crawford enlists trainee Clarice Starling to go to Hannibal Lecter, an infamous serial killer and cannibal himself, in an attempt to get information on Buffalo Bill's identity. Therein, Hannibal and Clarice form a strange "quid pro qou" relationship, in which he offers information on her case in exchange for personal information about herself. In time he leads her closer and closer to the way she catches the serial killer, who has, at this time, kidnapped a senator's daughter, sending the urgency of the case skyrocketing. While in custody to offer information to the senator herself, Hannibal kills two security guards and escapes ingeniously by wearing one of the dead men's faces. Clarice finally realizes that Buffalo Bill is skinning the murdered women in order to make himself a woman suit out of real women, and accidently goes to his house while attempting to get information on his identity. She gets caught in the basement with him in the dark after discovering the senator's daughter alive and shoots and kills him. After the ordeal, she is promoted to FBI agent. She then gets a call from Hannibal Lecter, who is abroad and about to make another kill: His nemesis, the doctor at the prison where he was held for eight years.

From listening and looking at the opening of the film silence of the lambs, the sound plays a big part in the opening. Right at the begging you hear classical music with a fast past beat to it. Also played over the top of the music is like a eagle or bird chirping and a insect noise that you would expect to hear in woodlands this sound this gives effect to the wood that you see a girl running in. You hear the heavy breathing of the girl and you hear the footstep of her running and the leafs crunching before you acutely see her, this builds up the suspense as we don’t know why she is running or running from. We go on to see that she is running as part of her training for the fbi we see this when we here the gun shots for there target practise the gun shots also make us question what’s going on.
We hear her go in to the office to have a deduction with a man that has a powerful voice so this makes me as a viewer think that he is some kind of boss figure then there conversation that they have gives us idea to the narrative of the rest of the film. So in conclusion the sound has given away a lot of clues and built us suspends for us to want to see what is happening with in the opening.