Analysis on films - The Silence of the Lambs

In ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ I thought the eerie music added to the effect that nobody really knew what was going on. The FBI label on her jumper was very effective, as it allows the audience’s minds to go berserk in not knowing whether she is running away from or to something, or whether she is just simply doing a training exercise. When Jodie Foster goes back to the academy, it is extremely effective and almost amusing about how she controls with the patriarchal society in the building. The lift scene highlights this when she is a short and sweaty woman standing next to a bunch of identical and immaculately dressed men. One thing that I liked very much in this opening sequence was the use of signs. These were used to give the audience the general idea of what is going on without having to incorporate some un-necessary dialogue to the script.