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Released date: October 31st 2008, (Halloween) on 2,652 screens
Directed: Mickey Liddell
Production company: Liddell Entertainment
Distributed by: Freestyle Releasing
Budget: 5 million US dollars
Box office: 15.4 US dollars
Genre: American supernatural horror
One underlying key theme is mental health. The transition between Judith from child to adolescence is based drastically around pain, confusion, isolation and the hunger within her trying to be accepted by a numerous amount of individuals. Within the Film 'the haunting .. hartley' it is based upon a young girl (17 years old) and her deranged mother who is placed within a mental institution, due to the attack she places on her daughter( The mother is under the control of satan). However throughout the film, as a result her daughter begins to show signs of the same psychosis which controlled most of her mothers life. The hidden message within this particular film is how many individuals associate someone with a mental illness to be assumingly 'insane' and therefore needs to be institutionalised to 'control' them due to expressing behaviours that are not deemed within the 'norm' of society.
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| image of molly stabbing her daughter which leads her to be institutionalised, as she is deemed to have a mental illness- rather then having satan within her The image portrays how a relationship can be tested through the power of a religion. The image is to show how the mother believes what she is doing is through the goodness of her heart and she is protecting her daughter from pain. Within the film Purity, Judith sees every situation through the eyes of her child and therefore her actions represent this simple but powerful fact. |
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Distributed by: Orion Pictures
Budget: $19 million
Box office: 272.7 million
Released date: 14 february 1994
The relationship between Clarice (jodie foster) and Hannibal Lecter is what fascinates me drastically about this film in particular. Moreover Both come from different ends of the law system which allows the progress of the case to work at a fast pace; FBI agent - Serial killer. The bond that is created through these simple forefilling 'interviews' blossoms into a friendship were both seem to help and have a mutual respect for one another, however one could simply extend this fact and say its due to how Lecter's personality is based upon dehumanising traits were there lies hidden tatics to gain what ever he deems as his and how he plays upon her weaknesses. What strikes me secondly is how a women is the one who conducts the interviews, is alone with the serial killer and how gender roles have been reversed. Prior research from a documentary i recently watched explained the reasoning behind how women were only placed in these conditions and that was due to the ratio of how many serial killers targeting females rather than males. Therefore women we used to in a theory seduce the serial killer in a professional manner allowing them to gain as much information out of the subject in question rather then allowing for equality within the law system.
Another factor that i found in the previous documentary was that Lecter was based upon a series of USA serial killers within the 1970s Hence why his killing spectrum had numerous of cross-over elements with previous cases. As the author; Thomas Harris, in 1980 gained access to the FBI behavioural science Unit in Virginia. Due to the claim that a break through had been pioneered there, that would change the future in how some of the most dangerous criminals would be caught. Harris was firmly interested in the serial killers motives and their psychological makeup, leading onto the creation of 'Lecter'. This portrayed vastly well to the target audience as in 1992 Anthony Hopkins who plays Lector won the award for best actor. Connoting that the research that harris had driven out onto the new coined term within the 70s 'serial killer' was a large success. The film went onto also win; Academy award for; best acted screen play, best picture, best director , silver screen and numerous of other awards.
THE LINK: Within the film Purity we want the audience to feel the connection between father Abraham and Sister Judith. The way silence of the lambs has done with Lecter and Clarice. Even though they're from vastly different ends of the community and system they're with in, they still are able to share a rare and mutual connection with one another. That enables them to share information, which would presumably not be shared with any other FBI agent. Primarily due to Lecters fascination with Clarice as he sees her driven passion for a just result and takes advantage of this.
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| Awards that silence of the lambs won |
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