Boundaries are what people put up and dare not to cross or to cross. They are put up for protection or as a challenge. The movie The Silence of the Lambs explores the first of these two reasons. The movie features Agent Clarice Starling, an FBI agent in training who is given a difficult case that will either make or break her future reputation, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychologist that has become a psychopathic and cannibalistic serial killer, and Buffalo Bill, a man that is convinced that he is a transexual woman and becomes a serial killer that collects female victims so that he may skin them and use the skin to make a bodysuit for himself. The movie pushes the limits of boundaries by focusing on how far one is willing to go to for the greater
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This segment of disorder is characterized by a lack of emotion and regret, as well as unrestrained and aggressive actions (Myers, 2011). According to R. Blair, psychopathy is created from a lack of moral development associated with the inability to restrain aggression (1995). Dr. Lecter fits into the category of psychopathy because of the fact that he was able to harm the nurse without his heart rate rising to a rate that would be equivalent to a struggle. His body did not react in a way synonymous with regret or anger. Throughout the movie, Dr. Lecter also makes many insensitive remarks to Agent Starling and asks inappropriate questions about Agent Starling’s torn childhood. He fits the description of psychopathy because he does not consider, nor care about, Agent Starling’s feelings. He also lashes out in extremely unrestrained violence, thus proving the psychopathic theory. Buffalo Bill is the main antagonist in The Silence of the Lambs. He is a serial killer that is convinced that he is a transexual woman and this motivates him to create a skin suit. Dr. Lecter claims that he is a psychopath in association with with having post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Lecter voices this opinion in a scene midway through the movie, around 0:55:00, when he explains that Buffalo Bill was not born the way he was but rather was created as a psychopath as a result of his abusive childhood. Dr. Lecter further explains that he acts the way he does in order to cope with his how he was
This segment of disorder is characterized by a lack of emotion and regret, as well as unrestrained and aggressive actions (Myers, 2011). According to R. Blair, psychopathy is created from a lack of moral development associated with the inability to restrain aggression (1995). Dr. Lecter fits into the category of psychopathy because of the fact that he was able to harm the nurse without his heart rate rising to a rate that would be equivalent to a struggle. His body did not react in a way synonymous with regret or anger. Throughout the movie, Dr. Lecter also makes many insensitive remarks to Agent Starling and asks inappropriate questions about Agent Starling’s torn childhood. He fits the description of psychopathy because he does not consider, nor care about, Agent Starling’s feelings. He also lashes out in extremely unrestrained violence, thus proving the psychopathic theory. Buffalo Bill is the main antagonist in The Silence of the Lambs. He is a serial killer that is convinced that he is a transexual woman and this motivates him to create a skin suit. Dr. Lecter claims that he is a psychopath in association with with having post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Lecter voices this opinion in a scene midway through the movie, around 0:55:00, when he explains that Buffalo Bill was not born the way he was but rather was created as a psychopath as a result of his abusive childhood. Dr. Lecter further explains that he acts the way he does in order to cope with his how he was