Psycho
Brief note before I go into my analysis: I hate being scared. And I get scared easily. So I did not at all want to watch this movie.
Though it was different because it was a movie and not a written story, there were many similarities between Psycho and some of the detective stories we've read in class. Like the Poe stories, there was a reveal at the end where the entire story was explained to the viewers. In Psycho, the reveal came from the psychiatrist who had been talking to the murderer, and gotten the entire story out of him.
Unlike the stories, where all the events are related after they've happened, Psycho follows the murders. This makes them more real, as you can see it happening, but it also makes the movie more suspenseful because of the way that it is presented.
Hitchcock, the director, sews in many clues as the movie unfolds as to what really happened. He also has a lot of misdirection in his clues, like the mother's bathrobe worn by the killer to make viewers think the mother was the killer, and not her psychotic son.
My favorite scene was the one where Marianne Crane ripped up her slip of paper and threw it in the toilet. At that moment I was excited because I knew that whoever came after her would find that $40000 written on the slip and know she was there. It reassured me that things would work out in the end, even though she died.
Though it was different because it was a movie and not a written story, there were many similarities between Psycho and some of the detective stories we've read in class. Like the Poe stories, there was a reveal at the end where the entire story was explained to the viewers. In Psycho, the reveal came from the psychiatrist who had been talking to the murderer, and gotten the entire story out of him.
Unlike the stories, where all the events are related after they've happened, Psycho follows the murders. This makes them more real, as you can see it happening, but it also makes the movie more suspenseful because of the way that it is presented.
Hitchcock, the director, sews in many clues as the movie unfolds as to what really happened. He also has a lot of misdirection in his clues, like the mother's bathrobe worn by the killer to make viewers think the mother was the killer, and not her psychotic son.
My favorite scene was the one where Marianne Crane ripped up her slip of paper and threw it in the toilet. At that moment I was excited because I knew that whoever came after her would find that $40000 written on the slip and know she was there. It reassured me that things would work out in the end, even though she died.
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