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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.
