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This was my second time watching Psycho and it was still a good movie. I would like to say that this was my first and only horror movie, and that will be how it is forever because I'm not a horror movie kind of guy. Nevertheless, this is a cinematic masterpiece. I was always somewhat shocked when the supposed protagonist gets murdered almost less than halfway through the movie. At first I kind of wondered if her death was some kind of fate, or jus judgement being pronounced upon her, but that even though Marion isn't a super good person, no one really deserves to be murdered while they are naked in the shower. Also, I think it's interesting to point out that in the start of the movie, Marion wears a white bra (maybe it's lingerie, I don't know), but in the Bates Motel she wears black, as if to symbolize her fall from moral rightness. Perhaps the black also foreshadows her own death, as black is a funeral color.
The bathtub scene is always fun to analyze as it's just so fake. In fact the director of the movie actually used chocolate syrup as the blood going down the drain (since it's black and white one cannot tell). It's great to see that Cinema has come a long way since its inception. Also, in the long car ride prior to arriving at the Bates Motel, it's clear that it's not raining outside. The "rain" falls onto the windshield in a pattern that looks more like a hose. Some of the murder scenes too were really just laughable. When the detective died it was pretty funny, because the zoom out effect behind him in an effort to show that he was running was absolutely fake. However, I think that since the director doesn't rely on CGI or effects to make the viewer afraid, this movie is still genius. The mystery here can be somewhat overlooked until the end because the watcher might believe he has it figured out, that the mother is the killer in this situation. We even see an individual wearing a dress murder the detective. This is till incorrect though. Psycho is a mystery because the watcher really doesn't understand what's going on until the very end.
Norman Bates always makes me sad whenever I see this movie, because he seems like such a cool guy at first, cracking jokes even asking Marion to dinner, but then he just gradually gets creepier, starting with taxidermy and then he turns out to be a complete madman who kills people and so forth and so on. I think that Bates having dissociative disorder is a sad thing, because Bates could've been such a cool guy. Talk about bad parenting. I mean he still managed to have manners despite being somewhat insane and stuff.
Overall, Psycho is a great movie that mixes the horror and detective genres in a fun and intriguing way.
The bathtub scene is always fun to analyze as it's just so fake. In fact the director of the movie actually used chocolate syrup as the blood going down the drain (since it's black and white one cannot tell). It's great to see that Cinema has come a long way since its inception. Also, in the long car ride prior to arriving at the Bates Motel, it's clear that it's not raining outside. The "rain" falls onto the windshield in a pattern that looks more like a hose. Some of the murder scenes too were really just laughable. When the detective died it was pretty funny, because the zoom out effect behind him in an effort to show that he was running was absolutely fake. However, I think that since the director doesn't rely on CGI or effects to make the viewer afraid, this movie is still genius. The mystery here can be somewhat overlooked until the end because the watcher might believe he has it figured out, that the mother is the killer in this situation. We even see an individual wearing a dress murder the detective. This is till incorrect though. Psycho is a mystery because the watcher really doesn't understand what's going on until the very end.
Norman Bates always makes me sad whenever I see this movie, because he seems like such a cool guy at first, cracking jokes even asking Marion to dinner, but then he just gradually gets creepier, starting with taxidermy and then he turns out to be a complete madman who kills people and so forth and so on. I think that Bates having dissociative disorder is a sad thing, because Bates could've been such a cool guy. Talk about bad parenting. I mean he still managed to have manners despite being somewhat insane and stuff.
Overall, Psycho is a great movie that mixes the horror and detective genres in a fun and intriguing way.
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