In this episode of the Film Colossus Podcast, we traverse the psychological labyrinth known as: The Silence of the Lambs. We revisit this classic thriller and discuss its contents, finding a narrative in Clarice’s struggle to move on, to form an identity outside her trauma, to endure the psychiatric exercises of the one and only Hannibal Lecter.
The Film Colossus Podcast | Episode 66: The Silence of the Lambs
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Your comments about how “Buffalo Bill is not transgender” are very 2024–when this came out in 1991, trans* people were not even on the radar whatsoever, so it was homophobia, not transphobia, and the gay community were the ones who took the brunt of it. Research articles from the time, and you won’t see transgender people mentioned at all, because they were truly invisible to the culture, and gay/lesbian people were at the stage trans people are in now. Remember, this was several years before “Will & Grace” or even Ellen’s coming out in 1997. It was still the height of the AIDS crisis, which had no real treatments, so gay men were shunned by many of the public as being assumed to be “AIDS characters”, then this added “probably psychopaths who want to be women” on top of that.
Secondly, at the end of the podcast when you mention other Jodie F movies to see–don’t forget The accused, for which she won an Oscar! Also “Nell” and (less so) Little Man Tate. She had a lot of good stuff in that era!