Im not sure about the significance of the red white and blue in Silence of the Lambs. But Im not convinced by the argument that "charcters like Gumb are the particular legacy of a culture that has allowed women into positions of power." While a feminis critique of this kind is vital, I would like also to remind viewrs of the blatant homophobia of this film, a film that implies a repatholgization and recriminilization of homosexuality. I just finished reading a very good essay by Diane Fuss in Media Spectacles called "Monsters of Perversion: Jefffery Dahmer and the Silence of the Lambs," which I highly recommend. Kyle Mechar Mcgill University Montreal