Since this thread went a bit without updates I'll go ahead and speed it up a bit with two installments in the same day. But don't skip over the first to focus on the last. They are both important.
The next section we'll focus on is: What in the hell is going on in Jame Gumb (AKA Buffalo Bill's) lair. Everything we will cover in this post deals with what is going on in his lair.
Upon entering Gumb’s lair for the first time you should immediately see red white and blue. Three manikins are first in view, one with blond hair, one with auburn hair and the third with some kind of blue frilly thing on her head. This occurs at approximately 49 minutes into the movie. The one with blue is reaching out to a 4th manikin wearing a black and red cape.
Seconds later you see Gumb at his work desk. You will see that he has several items pined up on a large American flag above his desk. A clock placed in the stars of the flag is interesting but for now, just note the flag above Gumb’s desk.
Where Gumb is sitting at his desk, there is a doorway to his left side. On the outer face of that door is a map of The United States. You can't see it in this scene, but it will be visible when Clarise enters later in the movie at approx. 1:44.10.
At this point in the movie they go out to where the victim is being held in a well. Notice the light on the wall in the room she is being held. The bricks around the light are painted blue and the bricks below the light are painted red. A white light surrounded by blue bricks with red bricks below… Reminiscent of the American Flag? Later in the movie, before Gumb’s death, you’ll get a closer look at the light and bricks. The repetition is not accidental, this movie is full of imagery repeated over and over.
Now to the famous point where Gumb is asking the victim to place the lotion in the basket, at about 58 minutes in. As the basket it being raised, you will see that they pause for a quick second on a portion of the wall where past victims tried to claw their way out. A fingernail is stuck in the bricks, red white and blue. Red, the blood and blue and white in the bricks.
Next at approx. 1:25 into the movie we’re to a scene where Gumb is sowing. They zoom in close to show Gumb’s hand. He has two tattoos on his hand. One that says “Love” and the other, “The Star of Bethlehem” When the victim tosses a bone up to the dog, “Precious” you again see red white and blue.
Next we see another tattoo on Jame Gumb AKA Buffalo Bill. Three drops of blood dripping from a tattoo representation of a wound on the side of his chest/abdomen area. They make sure you see this spending plenty of time on it. The immediate scene right after is of Precious, again you see the red white and blue. Precious is white, red pillow, blue bed. After seeing Gumb’s tattoo representing a wound, we see a close-up of his nipple ring which is shaped like a droplet. This IMO is just meant to reinforce the previous image seconds ago of the wound tattoo which is more important.
The next scene with Gumb is very important to the movie. At approx. 1:35:40 he is dancing in front of a recording camera. He has just got done fitting part of a SKIN THAT IS NOT HIS. His little dance ends with him striking a pose and right before he strikes that pose, in the ultimate symbology of misrepresenting yourself, he tucks his male goods. The pose he strikes at the end of his dance is the same as Jesus on the crucifix. See from my notes above that he is posed not only in a stance representing Jesus on the crucifix but also bearing a tattoo representing the spear wound of Jesus. Three droplets of blood. Star of Bethlehem and Love tattooed on his hand. Yes, by now you see that this is all intentional. They didn’t accidentally put all these images together. There is an intentional point to it all that some were meant to see and others were not…
By now you’re probably putting some of the stuff together.
Part II to Jame Gumb’s Lair comes in my next post. Oh and it gets even better…. This ain’t noth’n yet.
IN THE IMAGES BELOW, NOTE WHERE THE SPEAR WOUND IS ON CHRIST AND WHERE THE TATOO'D WOUND IS ON JAME GUMB.