Clareese…the way Lecter says it sends a chill through my body everytime I see the movie. This is a whodunit with a criminal assisting the police through direction. Lecter is not scary in this movie. Perhaps it’s the ordinariness which is supposed to scare. That’s not what impressed me about the movie. What I did like were the encounters between him and Starling(Foster). He plays her so well and she does his bidding. The way he mesmerizes her is the scary part. He makes her tell her stories about herself in exchange for tidbits about Buffalo Bill(BB), the villain of the piece. With Lecter’s character present in the movie BB seems more like a man gone mad rather than a vicious killer. They do show his doing some antics but that wasn’t scary cause at the back of my mind I always felt he was the byline and what was happening between L and D was the story. The scene where Starling finds the girl and confronts the villain is thrilling. The part where he reaches out for her in the dark when he is just inches away from her always makes me hold my breath. Another favourite scene of mine is when Lecter is trying to escape. If you notice carefully the background music is classical. That was an interesting combination – violent action with classical music. This is a movie that one can savor for a long time after the event.