30 Years Ago, The Silence of the Lambs Gave Us a Feminist Hero in Detective Clarice Starling
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30 Years Ago, The Silence of the Lambs Gave Us a Feminist Hero in Detective Clarice Starling

The Silence of the Lambs isn’t just about Dr Hannibal Lecter. Its protagonist is actually Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent-in-training played by Jodie Foster. The film tells the story of how Starling tracks down a serial killer and saves a woman from becoming his next victim, even as she fights sexism at the workplace. Hannibal is just her sidekick in the whole shindig.
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My literature teacher: my fondest memory of school

Literature teachers are heavily romanticised in cinema, and for good reason. It takes a poetic perspective on life to escape the specificities of science and mathematics. Literature teachers help us find ourselves through stories and poetry when we’re growing up, and that’s what makes them so special.