Who here wanted to punch Clarice
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Silence of the Lambs
The_Ultimate_Hippo — 10 years ago(October 07, 2015 04:52 PM)
When Buffalo Bill starts running and she doesn't shoot him? Seriously you're supposed to be an FBI agent a man who you know is a psycho killer is running (probably going for his gun) and you just let him go? God she sucks.
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The_Ultimate_Hippo — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 02:28 PM)
If she wants to stay alive she needs to learn to not hesitate and to trust her instincts. Plus what the hell was up with "Catherine you're safe"??? No she isn't, Buffalo Bill was still very much in the house with a gun and night vision goggles. Sounds to me like they should have postponed giving her FBI status.
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The_Ultimate_Hippo — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 04:41 PM)
She was such a joke, just came off as a giggling school girl, I saw no difference between her and Denise Richards from The World is not Enough. Couldn't take her seriously as an FBI agent.
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Scipii — 10 years ago(October 10, 2015 01:58 AM)
Back up would have taken several minutes to get there and the whole goal was to save Catherine's beep life you idiots!!! If she just went outside and waited Catherin could have been murdered. She did what she had to do to save Catherine and succeeded. Good on her. The only frustrating part is watching Bill not shoot her head off
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The_Ultimate_Hippo — 10 years ago(October 10, 2015 07:03 AM)
But Bill started running and she didn't shoot him!!! Why the hell not??? She was perfectly justified. For all she knew he had a damn shotgun in the next room and was going to blow her brains out.
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wylierichardson-966-922691 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 02:04 AM)
That may be what a real-life FBI agent would have done in that situation; but remember that this is cinema. The protracted scene in the basement helped to slowly but surely build the tension, putting her in clear danger; when she finally kills Buffalo Bill, it's like a catharsis / relief for the viewer. Many film climaxes work the same way - consider the long denouments of "Titanic", "Lord of the Rings", and "Star Wars".
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shawnmichael15 — 10 years ago(October 10, 2015 03:24 PM)
My point is she should have had backup before even
going
there alone to begin with. They could have waited outside and did something similar to what the other FBI agents were going to do with the undercover flower delivery man, but she took the case personal and took it upon herself. She got lucky, but it was ultimately not a very wise decision on her part.
And Catharine was kept alive there for awhile because he was starving her to make her skin tighter.. Yes, he planned on killing her but not in
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The_Ultimate_Hippo — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 09:00 AM)
Before she pulled her gun out she knew that guy was Buffalo Bill so don't try to act like it completely took her by surprise, secondly the guy was running from her and was most definitely a threat to others, she was well within her right to shoot him.
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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 5 years ago(June 09, 2020 06:49 PM)
Nope! It’s made very clear that she doesn’t know it’s Buffalo Bill she’s talking to until she starts talking to him, then sees the moth flying around that he’s been shoving down the victims throats after he kills them.
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pistrix — 9 years ago(August 29, 2016 07:22 PM)
I think Clarice should have called for backup before going into the house alone it was a stupid decision.
She didn't know Jack Gordon was really Jamie Gum aka Buffalo Bill. She didn't know until she saw the DeathHead Moth on the spool of thread. She had no reason to call for backup yet.
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