This is one of my top candidates for "The Most Overrated Movie of All Time" award. As long as I remember myself this movie has been considered to be a classic. Even when I was an uneducated teenager who knew nothing about the world of cinema, even then I knew that "The Silence of the Lambs" was a great movie. How wrong I was.
For the first time I stumbled upon the movie on TV during my high school years. To say I wasn't impressed is to say nothing. If my memory serves me right, I even fell asleep in the middle of it. That's okay, I thought, that's not the film's fault, it's my fault - I should have started it from the very beginning and probably I was just too young anyway to understand all the intricacies of the story and dialogues. So around 10 years later I decided to give it another chance. And do you know what? My opinion hasn't changed. It is really as boring as I remember it to be. 10 years later and I still almost fell asleep in the middle of it. Don't get me wrong, the movie isn't bad, but it definitely receives more appraise than it deserves. It's too pretentious. It's not worth even a half of the hype it eventually has generated in our society.
For the first time I stumbled upon the movie on TV during my high school years. To say I wasn't impressed is to say nothing. If my memory serves me right, I even fell asleep in the middle of it. That's okay, I thought, that's not the film's fault, it's my fault - I should have started it from the very beginning and probably I was just too young anyway to understand all the intricacies of the story and dialogues. So around 10 years later I decided to give it another chance. And do you know what? My opinion hasn't changed. It is really as boring as I remember it to be. 10 years later and I still almost fell asleep in the middle of it. Don't get me wrong, the movie isn't bad, but it definitely receives more appraise than it deserves. It's too pretentious. It's not worth even a half of the hype it eventually has generated in our society.
