Of my silence and that of the lambs

Exam time, and I'm on a roll with movies. Professional Ethics out of the way, and 'Principles of Environmental Engineering' to come next, it's high time I got my priorities right. The morons at Anna University actually think that making us study Sewage treatment processes will make us good engineers. I guess not. Having six days off to study ecosystems, sewage treatment, and environmental laws, I thought, what the heck, I have more important things to do in life.

Finally got myself to watch 'Silence Of the Lambs'. Now, most of you people out there would have already watched this movie, but I haven't been able to get myself to watch it the innumerable times it's been played on HBO and Zee MGM over the past two years. But now that we're into CAS times, and the damned operators won't play any of the good channels which I used to enjoy on TV, I mostly have to rely on the bootlegging skills of friends( Here's to Abishek) to download whole movies from P2P networks.

@'Silence Of The Lambs'

One brilliant movie, total entertainment for an hour and forty-five minutes. I was simply stunned with Anthony Hopkins, as Dr.Hannibal Lecter, and the way he portrays the man-eating,smooth-talking psychopath. Jodie Foster looked a little old to be an FBI trainee, though I should say that it would have been difficult to find an actress that could pull off the performance she has. Some of the scenes were pretty graphic, particularly the one where she finds the head of one of Hannibal's victims in a jar, almost threw me out of my chair, and the fact that I was eating didn't help either.The final touch of Buffalo Bill stalking Jodie Foster with night vision goggles was also chilling, and I wonder if you'd get the same effect when you read the book.But one thing which went over my head is how Buffalo Bill manages to miss the agent, while she puts two bullets into him, seeing into the dark and being just a couple of yards away. Overall, the movie had me rivetted to my chair, is a must see, if only for the acting of Anthony Hopkins.


Now that SOTL ,(If you can call Lord Of the Rings LOTR, why no this?!), considered by many as the mother of all Psycho movies,is done, I think I'm getting into this genre and have Se7en coming next.

With Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, I think Se7en will be one enjoyable, if not thrilling movie. Will be back with the review..

Till then, pollute as you like, and don't give a shit!! (as opposed to the Environmental Ideologies Of AU)