Young and Full of Fluff

I watched Silence of the Lambs last night for the first time. It has a bit of a Casablanca problem--I watch so many procedurals, and so many of them draw a straight line back to Silence of the Lambs, in format, in characters, and often in plot, that the original has left me...meh.

It has been rightly criticised as being transphobic (and how). I was also noticing just how much it disempowers Clarice. ( spoilers for Silence of the Lambs )

Tl;dr: what a disappointment, and not a great movie for portraying women.

Also, could they have been any more looking for a Jodi Foster lookalike when they cast Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully? She even has the same hair.

In tonight's watching of cultural touchstones from the nineties that I was too young for the first time around: Fargo.

As with most Coen Brother films, I don't...get it? Like, again, the most iconic stuff I already knew about. But the film just meanders around a lot, and their humor's not really my kind of humor, so that just leaves me with a feeling of "huh."