Forum Post: Silence of the Lambs Movie The Perfect Allegory for American Malaise

So I watched Silence of the Lambs last night and I couldn't help think that this fantastic movie has great lessons to teach the Americans people. If you remember the movie the whole movie stems around the notion of predators and their easy prey. Obviously the predators are Hannibal and Buffalo Bill and the prey is the victim Catharine, Clarice Starling, and the methodologically dumbed down society: America. There are two scenes that I want to focus on that I think supports my point that American malaise means knowing that something is wrong but not doing something. I think that this is the major problem with America they have no street smarts and they override their instincts and survival skills to fit in to false protection of the status quo which does not exist by the way. When you have a society of predators and preys no one is safe unless they will them selves to be safe. The first scene is when Buffalo Bill is loading the truck with the couch, he has a cast on his arm and he looks like a victim. He asks Catherine to load the couch with him because he can not get it in the truck on his own. (By the way this was Ted Bundy's method in real life). Cathrine hesitates to help him but she lets her guard down being that she is a nice girl get the best of her and she helps him regardless. When all she needs to do is act like a bitch contrary to who she is and walk away fast. She gets taken. We later find out through her Senator mother's televised speech that Catherine is indeed a kind girl. Next scene, Clarice Starling is blackmailed by Hannibal to tell him about her childhood. Clarice tells the story of the lambs when she is a child how she was trying to run away and she encounters the lamb pen, The lambs were set to be slaughtered the next day and she was compelled to release them but when she opened the pen they would not move because they were soo use to being in a pen. Well she did not succeed in running away and her keep her uncle who was by her words "good man" gave her up to the foster system. So this is Clarice Starlings most traumatizing child hood experience. Why? How does this relate to Americans, Americans are essentially in a Malaise State they know something is wrong my God even the corporate media and alternative media lets you know something is wrong maybe beyond your expertise and comprehension but you continue to do the same bizarre crap. Lets see like going out on Black Friday put thousands of dollars on you credit cards, feeding the corporate machine even when you have "evidence" of corruption. You troll and argue and insult others over politics when you don't even know the first thing about real politics and how it works. You people deserve your pens and you deserve to be lead to the slaughter. Enjoy!!