Silence Becomes You (2005)

Two beautiful sisters lead a very close and remote life in a snow-bound New England mansion. Locked away from society for years the two have lost touch with reality and begin to cook up evil schemes. After luring a young and handsome stranger, Luke, into their web, they begin to seduce him using their otherworldly powers. With 2 sensual girls fawning over his every move, Luke thinks he’s died and gone to heaven. But the sisters’ plan goes terribly wrong when they failed to consider the traumatic powers of lust, deceit, jealousy and betrayal on their own relationship. If "vengeance is a woman scorned", Silence Becomes You delivers a double dose as this love triangle spirals into a psycho-sexual nightmare gone out of control…and somebody is going to get hurt.

Practical Magical Sisters!

An occult-magic undercurrent runs through this entire movie.

Beautifully made! Gorgeous colors and costumes caught my eye. Went back later to watch from the beginning and fell in love with the entire movie!

Perfectly cast and wonderful performances by all. A definate must see! Especially to watch the sisters learn their craft while young (via flash-backs), and then use their 'magic' during the movie. September 23, 2008

what was so confusing about this?

I don't understand why everyone was so confused by this film. I watched it beginning to end and was definately not staring at the screen dumbfounded. If you watched it and you got up a couple times to go to the bathroom or get something to eat and didn't pause it, then yeah, i can see where you might have missed a point somewhere. If you watched it all beginning to end and you didn't get it....you're not very bright. Now don't get me wrong. The movie definately has some aspects i didn't necessarily enjoy. Alicia Silverstone's character aggravates the crap out of me. If you havn't seen it yet and want to be surprised then don't read this because i'm about to ruin everything for you. Basically its 2 reclusive sisters living in a mansion alone. They had a strange upbringing by a crazy alchemist father. Assuming their parent's are dead, they've been left alone and have never really been apart of the real world so they have both remained incredibly childlike, often flashing back to themselves as children. They were taught about telepathy and mind powers from a young age by their father and seem to be able to communicate with each other that way. As adults they come up with a plan to find a man to impregnate one of them. they find Luke(joe anderson) in a bar and bring him home but the plan starts to backfire when Violet(silverstone)falls for him. Her sister, Grace, becomes jealous, feeling like Luke is stealing Violet from her so she seduces Luke to prove he's not that great. Anyway, at some point toward the end Luke starts to fight with Grace while Violet is away and he knocks over a candle into a bunch of oil paints causing a fire. Something explodes and flames engulf Luke, killing him. Earlier in the movie Violet finds she is pregnant but after Luke dies she has a miscarriage in the bath. but then you see a pregnant belly on Grace at the end as a result of her seduction. So at the end, Grace ended up getting the baby instead of Violet and it looks like Violet finally decides to leave home. Luke appears briefly in the passenger seat next to her, i think to show that having met him and with him in her thoughts she now has the courage to leave home and be apart of the world which is what he'd been begging her to do. But her character bothers me because she is the more childish of the 2. Grace is smarter and a bit more selfish and conniving. She is crazy and haunted by their father. Violet is a ditzy and naive in a way that I'm guessing is supposed to be charming but instead is just irritating. She too is haunted by their father but isn't crazy. So there you have it. I rather liked the movie, but I can see where others might not have. The movie is mostly just artsy I think. September 21, 2008

I don't know what all these other people are talking about

All these bad reviews... I was absolutely spell-bound by this film! I loved it! I will admit that there were questions not answered but that was kind of the point.

All three actors, Alicia, Sienna, and Joe were brilliant. Their characters intertwine in this beautiful way though the personalities are so different.

Alicia Silverstone is Violet, who is almost child-like in her perception of things. She falls in love with a guy very different from her and her love for him slowly causes a riff between herself and her sister.

Sienna Guillory, who plays Grace, is devious, tortured, and I'm pretty sure insane. She seems to be haunted by their past a lot more than Violet. Why? I don't know. The scenes of her by herself are beautifully acted. Her character is very deeply developed and her plans about "Luke" go far beyond Violet's causing all kinds of things.

Joe Anderson plays Luke; the trapped male. He's an "I don't-give-a-damn-about-anything" type of character to begin. But as his attraction to Violet grows, his heart opens up to her and they share what I believe to be a very beautiful love.

The costumes are amazing! Beautiful and very fitting to the tone of the film. I loved everything about this movie and can't wait to watch it again! August 16, 2008

a beautiful set, but what's the point if the story is nonexistant?

A pointless film that's trying to be as mysterious and mystical as possible and winds up being nothing but boring. Watching the film, there's a sense that there will be some big revelation, something in the script that will make the movie tie together, but that something never appears. In fact, the ending is even more ambiguous than the rest of the film. This movie is nothing but an exercise to show Alicia Silverstone in different stages of undress, and even those scenes aren't very revealing. The entire movie winds up being one bad mind game, or maybe a good one (depending on how you look at it; after all, the game is to get you to watch the movie). The scenery and photography are pretty good but do not make the film redeemable by any means. March 5, 2008

Worst Movie ever made

This has got to be the worst movie ever made in the history of humankind. The script writer lacks all the atributes that a good writer needs to have, even if you go to her website, her art is aweful and tasteless. I can't beleive any movie company would ever agree to make such a bad movie. It was a waste of my whole one dollar I paid for it in the clearance section. November 29, 2006

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