This is not technically about silence or about a movie I've seen, but I still thought it was appropriate...

One day, when we had a piano tuner over, I was alone in the lower level of the house. I was trying to make a phone call; I don't remember what for but it was something that contained a little tension for me, or maybe I was just having trouble getting through... anyway, in the middle of this, it suddenly occurred to me that the insistent "plunk, plunk, plunk" of the piano tuner upstairs, every so often shifting up half a step, would make just an amazing background for a scene in a thriller-- particularly if the piano tuner was somehow related to the tension of what was going on. Possibly it's been done. If not, it should be.

And, just to be genuinely on-topic after all, one use of silence that I remember most vividly from my childhood was in Dr. Who, in the credits to Earthshock, the episode where Adric dies. I was one of the few people on the planet who liked Adric, so it probably had more impact on me than on most others, but during the credits, instead of the usual bouncy Dr. Who music, there was complete silence, and the credits ran over a picture of Adric's broken gold star (some award for mathematical excellence, I think), which he'd used earlier in the episode to attack one of the Cybermen.

Lire"SOOO sad!"lyn