Mr. Lu Xun once said in the "Collection of Southern Cavity and Northern Mediation": "The situation of children is the fate of the future. "Childhood experiences tend to be like a brand that accompanies people throughout their lives. If childhood suffers misfortune, it is likely that the future fate will be rewritten.
In the old movie "The Silence of the Lambs", through a serial murder case, the childhood tragedy of the protagonist of the story is told, and it also fully demonstrates the childhood experience and can determine whether a person is an angel or a devil.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > childhood tragedy behind the murder</h1>
Adapted from Thomas Harris's thriller novel of the same name, The Silence of the Lambs tells the story of Clarissa, an FBI trainee agent, who, with the help of psychiatrist Hannibal, successfully captures Bill, a perverted killer who skins women.
Every woman who was killed was not only stripped of her skin, but also stuffed into her throat with a cocoon the size of a small finger. This insect cocoon is also known as "hell insect" and "skeleton moth", and Bill the bison stuffs the cocoon into the body of the deceased, hoping that he can break out of the pupa and turn into a butterfly.
Every murder committed by Bison Bill peels off a piece of the skin of the murdered young woman, who he hopes to piece together and make a "dress" for himself to fulfill his desire to become a woman.
There is no doubt that Bill the Buffalo is a ferocious pervert who imposes his own sick desires on others. In order to arrest him, Clarice came into contact with Hannibal, a psychiatrist in prison.
The skeleton moth eats the tears of mammals, it cannot live alone, silently consumes other things, its broken cocoon into a butterfly is new, but for what is consumed, it is a destruction. Bison Bill is one such character, who constantly consumes the lives of others for his own new life, and gradually turns himself into a skeleton moth.
In addition to the main line of Bison Bill, the confrontation and emotional exchange between Clarice and Hannibal became the second main line of the film. Hannibal was a well-known psychiatrist and an unforgiving man-eating demon.
He saw at a glance the fragile heart of Clarice's ambition, and professionally, he developed a strong interest in Clarice, trying to explore what kind of suffering this fragile human being had suffered, and Clarice, who had been struggling with the "screaming lamb" of her childhood, could not get out.
With the advancement of the film, the 3 protagonists in the original story all have tragic childhoods, but different choices and different mentalities have given them different life trajectories.
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As the image of the wise man in the film, Hannibal guides Clarice step by step, peeling back the cocoon to find bill the bison, who has bright eyes, as if he can see through people at a glance, but his eyes are also sharp blades, it is night. Such a rational and wise psychiatrist is a murderous man-eating demon who does not blink.
In Hannibal's eyes, all sentient beings are just lambs to be slaughtered, and the butcher's knife can only tremble in the face of fate. The two-sidedness of personality makes him an angel and a devil.
Originally born into an aristocratic family, Hannibal received a good education from an early age. However, the arrival of World War II shattered his otherwise beautiful childhood. In the chaos of the war, he saw the deserters kill their sisters and eat them, and his soul was seriously distorted under the great blow.
Constantly absorbing knowledge and constantly learning to explore the human heart, instead of soothing Hannibal's inner pain, it made his heart more cold and hard. He broke free from the shackles of good upbringing and retaliated against this society in a simple and crude way of "cannibalism", so that Hannibal seemed to be a true demon.
Bill the Bison also had an unhappy childhood, and under the abuse of his stepmother, his heart desperately longed for maternal love.
After being abandoned by his stepmother, he also lost the ability to love others, and he hoped to change his identity to obtain maternal love, but after three consecutive applications for sex reassignment surgery after growing up and being rejected, he decided to get rid of his genitals and live like a woman.
He plans to kill 6 women, strip them of different skins, and make a dress to wear on them, in order to satisfy his fantasy of becoming a woman. He wanted to be a woman as beautiful as his mother, because it would be possible to regain his mother's love.
Initially, the young bison Bill was also a trembling lamb to be slaughtered, but in the case of extreme lack of love, the twisted Bill has become an executioner with blood-stained hands.
Unlike Hannibal and Bill the Bison, Clarice, although she also had an unhappy childhood, always had compassion and compassion for the weak in her heart. When she was young, her father, a patrol officer, died in the line of duty, and her life with her mother was in a difficult situation, and at the age of 10, Clarice was sent to her aunt's house by her mother.
Clarice's life at her aunt's house did not improve either, and she left after only 2 months. The nightmare that had haunted her was not her childhood poverty, abuse and displacement, but her inability to rescue a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
The scream of the sheep became a nightmare that she could not get rid of, even if she grew up to become a policeman, smart and rational at work, and able to handle relationships with others smoothly, but under the strong appearance, she had a fragile and compassionate heart.
Clarice blamed herself for not being able to save the helpless lamb, and she was helpless for her own weakness at the time, and she was full of compassion for the lamb. When Hannibal heard the story of the "Screaming Lamb", he was also impressed by Clarice, who boasted of seeing through human nature.
In Hannibal's eyes, humans are cowardly, selfish, and ugly, and Clarice is the exception. In the midst of difficulties, she remains kind, sympathetic to the weak, grateful to the world, with a holy beauty.
In order to help Clarice get rid of the lamb of her childhood, Hannibal guides Clarice step by step to find the buffalo Bill, kill him, and rescue Catherine, who is almost killed.
In the course of the confrontation with Bill the Bison, Clarice was not afraid at all, and pressed forward step by step, and even the murderous serial killer was eventually defeated. When Catherine was rescued, Clarice also achieved inner redemption, and the once screaming lamb never appeared in her dreams again.
Human nature is complex, and Hannibal in the play is also multifaceted. He is a demon and an angel, and he hates humanity on the one hand, and on the other hand, he admires the good qualities of Clarice and is willing to help her hunt down bill the bison. Compared with the fierce and vicious Buffalo Bill, Hannibal's character image is more complex and more difficult to figure out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="97" > no longer silent, breaking the shackles of childhood</h1>
For Buffalo Bill, Clarice, and Hannibal, unhappy childhoods were the shackles of their lives. Bison Bill spends his life in chains, Hannibal seems to be rational and free, but still can't get rid of the shadow of childhood, only Clarice, in the continuous growth of self-redemption.
In fact, everyone has a demon in their hearts, but under the influence of society, they have learned to restrain and understand the boundaries. Childhood is crucial to a person's life, if you let the demons in your heart grow in your heart in childhood, you are likely to become a real demon when you grow up and endanger the whole society.
Buffalo Bill wants to be a woman in order to make up for the lack of maternal love in his childhood. He loves his puppy and treats him as his childhood self, and at the same time, he uses a butcher knife to aim at innocent women, using their lives and skin to complete his transformation.
Until the moment of his breathing, Bill the Buffalo wished he could be a beautiful woman.
Compared with Bill the Buffalo, although Clarice's childhood was also lacking in love and displacement, there was still a little hope in her life, encouraging her to run to a better life.
Before her father's death, Clarice had the care of her parents, and after living in the orphanage, she was accompanied by a blind horse named Hannah.
Even in the darkest hours of her life, Clarice was never alone. It is precisely because of these faint lights that Clarice strives to get rid of the image of the weak, and her ambition is also to be able to become a strong person, to protect the weak around them, so that they will no longer be lambs to be slaughtered.
Even Hannibal, who later retaliated against society by "cannibalism", had a happy childhood. He is a demon, but he also has a conscience in his heart, so he will admire Clarice from the bottom of his heart, and after the successful escape from prison, he does not regard Heris as a new prey.
Buffalo Bill, on the other hand, had a childhood full of violence and bloodshed, which deprived him of the ability to love others and gradually distorted his mind. In complete darkness, Buffalo Bill has long since ceased to yearn for the light.
It is precisely because he has not been treated gently by this world that Bill, the abandoned bison, has also given up on this society. There was no hope in his heart, only desire and hatred. He responds in his own way to this cold and cruel society.
Perhaps Bill the Buffalo became a blood-stained executioner, and his adult experience is also inextricably linked, but in the final analysis, the tragic and dark childhood is the culprit who pushed him into the abyss.
Rousseau said in his Confessions: "The child's first steps toward evil are probably because his good nature has been led astray." "Childhood determines whether a person is an angel or a demon.
If children grow up in love in childhood, most of the feedback to this society is also love and warmth, but many children who live in the mud and darkness eventually lose themselves in the darkness and become demons.
One thought becomes a demon, and one thought becomes a Buddha. May children be treated tenderly by this world, not to gaze into the abyss, not to fight with the dragon, to be covered in sunshine, and to move forward bravely.