Reconsidering ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’: Wolves Do More Than Wear Sheep’s Clothing In Jonathan Demme’s Complicated Classic
“The Silence Of The Lambs” is a hostile workplace environment melodrama about what women endure in and out of the home, trained to be pliant and agreeable while predated upon by superiors, peers, and serial killers who want to wear their skin without— the film takes pains to clarify — also wanting to be them. Wolves wear sheep’s clothing not because they wish to be sheep, after all.