The Silence Of The Lambs

“The Silence of the Lambs” is one of the best horror and thriller movies in 1990’s and still praised as the greatest suspenseful and psychological American movie. The movie’s overall story focus on investigating the incident of the serial killer Buffalo Bill ostensibly, but the additional story of Clarice and Hannibal is also important to lead the flow of the movie. In fact, because of Hannibal’s strong psychological disorders such as cannibalism, narcissistic personality disorder and anti-social personality disorder, Clarice’s problem was in shadow. The movie title, “The Silence of the Lambs”, refers to conversations between Hannibal and Clarice. When Clarice met Hannibal to get clues about Buffalo Bill, she confessed her traumatic memories in her
After grew up, even though she tried to repress the memory of the events by doing her job eagerly, she suffered from the flashback unconsciously. She still suffered from the nightmare of the awful screaming of the lambs made her wake up in the dark and felt helplessness. She might criticize herself because she couldn’t do anything for the lambs. For her treatment, I want to recommend Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). According to US Department of Veterans Affairs, CBT is “[T]he most effective type of counseling for PTSD”. By CBT, perhaps Clarice will be reexposed the horrible memory by her imagination which contains her trauma and emotional turmoil, and then she will develop coping skills during the process, eventually, she will overcome the trauma. At the end of the movie, Hannibal asked her, “Have the lambs stopped screaming?” If the screaming of the lambs goes away in her mind, she may be free from the