Is Silence of the Lambs an accurate portrayl of offender profiling?
I think so because the author of the book and a psychiatrist who studies serial killers thought Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of a serial killer was right on the money. “Hopkins has the capacity to just draw you in,” says Helen Morrison, a psychiatrist who has studied real-life serial killers. “Which is a little similar to what a serial killer can do. They draw you in, and then it’s like being in a Venus flytrap — it’s over.” Plenty of real-life research went into the creation of Hannibal Lecter. Harris was a crime reporter who covered several serial killers before he wrote The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins studied up on them before he played the part. Morrison, for her part, thinks Hopkins nails certain behaviors and characteristics of the real thing — and she’s interviewed dozens of them, including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Wayne Williams. She says they can be alluring because they seem so normal. It was just that way the first time she met a serial killer. I would read the
