Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

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Psycho is a 1960 thriller directed by the well-known filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. The movie starts in Phoenix, Arizona were Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and her boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) are having a romantic lunch. Marion wants to marry Sam, but he has to make too many alimony payments, leaving him out with the option to have enough money to support her. Marion returns to the real estate office where she works as a secretary. In this scene Alfred Hitchcock makes a “cameo” appearing outside the real estate agency were Marion works. As she’s coming in through the front door you can see him through the glass door standing outside with a dark color jacket and his hat.
She arrives just ahead of her boss Mr. Lowery (Vaughn Taylor) and his client Cassidy (Frank Albertson) who buys a house from Lowery with $40,000 in cash. The director always has conversation that are not related to the story line. In this scene Caroline (Patricia Hitchcock) is having a conversation with Marion and she mentions that her mother gave her tranquilizer pills on the day of her wedding. Another example is the scene where Tom talks to Marion about his kids and that he buys happiness. Lowery tells Marion to put the money in the safe deposit box at the bank until Monday. She doesn't go to the bank and decides to packs a suitcase and leave town with the money. In this shot the director uses the Point-of-View technique for encouraging audiences to identify with particularly characters. Here, the repeated screen shots of the suitcase, an envelope with important documents, and the $40,000 all continue to build a relation between the character (Marion) and the viewer. Marion's face, once again, expresses great concern as she closes the suitcase. She looks towar...

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...h a large knife in hand. Sam arrives in a nick of time right before Norman was going for the kill.
In the County Court House Lila, Sam, and Sheriff Chambers are waiting to hear from a psychiatrist who is examining Norman. The psychiatrist enters to explain Norman’s double personality, and that he sometimes walks around wearing her clothes and a woman's wig to further enhance the illusion that his mother is still alive. The mother figure in the movie is Norman himself as he personalizes his mother by manifesting her presence in the house. Norman was quickly labeled as a transvestite. In this last scene of the movie, the psychiatrist also explains to the main characters, and the audience what a transvestite is and that Norman does not portray such behavior. Norman, or what’s left of his personality, sits motionless in a locked and guarded room with a grin on his face.

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