The movie tells us the tale of a fully-fledged psychopath, in captive, who assists a budding FBI agent named Clarice Starling in finding a serial killer out on the loose. The serial killer happens to be someone known to the prisoner, Hannibal Lector. The movie is based around Lector and Clarice and the tug of war they play with the FBI's hierarchy in order to find this killer, who likes to murder, and scalp plus size women.

The scene that we will be analyzing is the one where Lector escapes from his cell.

The cell is located within the top floor of a security building. Lector's cell is placed right in the middle of the cavernous hall. However, he still manages to escape after killing the two incompetent guards who were watching him.

The scene starts off with the guards

He does not get to watch long though, for the good doctor turns his attention to him with the nightstick. The audience sees Lector at his best, raising the stick high in the air like some kind of glorified scythe. He brings it down in a vicious blow to the head, over and over again, until there is no skull, but only a red, bulbous mess.

Between the two shots, we see another type of editing used in film. It is called parallel editing. Parallel editing lets us follow the simultaneous flow of actions at the same time from two different location. Basically, we see it happen when one of the guards say, "Ready when you are doc." We see the scene being cut, and then the camera is upon the doctor when he says, "Just give me a minute." We saw the action at two different locations: One with the guards outside the little cell and then the next being with Lector inside his private restroom.

As the guard was walking into the cell, the screen goes into parallel editing. We see the shot of Lector's hands outside the prison bars, adeptly undoing the locks on the cuffs. Then the scene cuts back to the guard placing the food down on the floor. The audience by now knows that Lector was planning his escape. But they do not realize the blazing trail of violence he was about to unleash. Even though the audience were expecting it, it still manages shock them in its abruptness. Lector cuffs the guard to the bars. The guard starts to scream. The shot goes into parallel editing, showing the shock and surprise of the guard on the outside.

The guard who handcuffed him then opens up the door to the cell and enters. Up until the point where he places the tray off food by Lector's side, sequence editing is used. He walks up to the table, which contains the tape player, and a painting of Clarice holding a lamb. Ironically, we see that lamb chops are being served for dinner.

from the left of the screen towards the right. One of them is carrying the doctor's dinner. The movement of the guards from left to right is based upon a sequence shot. A sequence shot is a shot where no editing of the action takes place. This kind of shot is usually used in documentaries. The next time we see the guards, they are by the door of the cell. But we don't see the camera following them from point A to point B. To condense time, a technique called cutting to continuity is used. That is, we the shot of the guards at point A, and then we see the final shot when they reach point B.

There is blood everywhere. One person is dead and another one will be in a short while. Classical music is playing in the background. It is truly an ironic contrast.

The next shot is of Lector regurgitating the pin out

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