This weekend I saw an absolutely riveting movie, "Silence of the Lambs." There were a few things which I found really amazing about the movie. First, how interesting the characters are. While several are admittedly very nasty and sick, the portrayal of Hannibal as both the most sane and most dangerous leads to a very interesting conflict on how much to root for him. The nature of the title, at first so opaque, it artfully revealed as the movie progresses, giving a window into the darker past of the main character. What really stunned me was how much fear the movie could invoke. Due to some of my reading choices and hobbies the film didn't leave me continually terrified, but once the momentum of the movie built up, my heart was pounding the rest of the way through.