Editing of Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs is considered one of the best horror films of all time, and even earned five academy awards and was the first horror film to acheive an Oscar for Best Picture. The editing of this film has a few techniques, and especially in one of the most important scenes of the film. This scene is where Hannibal Lecter escapes, killing two guards, but the way that it is shot is remarkable, for the editing techniques are well done, and we cannot actually be certain that he has succsefully escaped his confiement until the ending scene, where it cuts as we see him inside of an ambulance, disguised as a prison guard, wearing his skin like a mask to hide  his identity, a clever and well thought escape that we watch with excitement, knowing the greatness of that scene, and how it boosted the film to Oscar worthy stardom. The reason I have chosen this scene to deconstruct for editing, is because of the way in which it is done, as it is edited so you do not follow Hannibal's path, you follow the events as the police do, so you do not know of what is actually happening in the scene because you are just -mas blind and ignorant as the police are, believing that they have the upper hand against this genius. The editing is the stage in which you have finished filming, and begin to put all the footage into an editing software in which you can add sound effects, msic and special effects to and make scenes chronological or the order in which you want to tell the story.
The scene starts off slow, there is no cross-cutting and the camera does not change, it stays as a continuos and tracking shot which follows the guards as they give Dr Lecter his food, but as he escapes, the editing changes to Match on Action, from two shots where Hannibal opens his mouth and the next shot in which he is biting off the face of the guard that gave him his food, and now becomes his food. The next shot is done with a different technique, as it is Cross Cutting, because the narrative cuts to Hannibal no longer there, as the camera slowly pans over to see the food left there, covered in blood from where Hannibal beat the guard to death. The sound in this scene is diegetic, and scarily does not fit with the scene. You would expect to hear horiffic music as you witness the scene, but instead you hear a beautiful melody of a piano. There is a jump cut to a different scene and now we see the perspective of the police as they watch the elevator come down to their floor, but mysteriously stop on the third floor. This is where we are held in suspence and fearful of what he is doing, and the way the editing is now done we do not know where Hannibal is, which holds for a more tense scene as we find out what actually happened, and when we understand and respect the brilliance of Doctor Hannibal Lecter because of this escape, made confusing and tense at the start because of the well done editing which  keeps us not knowing what is happening on how it does not follow the simple continuity editing and instead using a vast array of editing techniques.