"Vide Cor Meum"

This piece of music was specially written for the movie Silence of the Lambs II. For this piece, there is no complete opera.

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This piece is called Vide Cor Meum, Latin, and the lyrics are selected from Dante’s poetic drama La Vita Nuova, in which Dante The poem describes the first time he met his beloved Beatrice. Vide Cor Meum means see my heart. Dante took out his heart and gave it to Beatrice, and she ate the fiery heart without hesitation. The performance in the movie is the heart-eating scene, which is a perfect metaphor for Dr. Cannibal's perverted habits. The director arranged this scene with great meaning.

The composer is the young Irish composer Patrick Cassidy. It should be pointed out that this piece of music was specially written for the movie Silence of the Lambs II. As for this piece, there is no complete opera, so it was later When the film director Scott directed Kingdom Come, he used this music again in the funeral scene of Baldwin IV. It seems that he also loved this music very much.