Psycho

9/10

Alfred Hitchcock movies are all the same but very different in almost every way. They are the same in the sense that you never actually know whats going on with all of these little trifles that happen throughout the movie until the end that wraps it all up and you have an epiphany. I personally am a fan of Hitchcock and I went out and bought his whole collection.

Now lets get into the movie a bit. I feel like this movie is one of the movies that will never be tempted with great thriller movies. Going on just the story it is not miraculous, but it is in the construction in which Hitchcock does so that makes it a great. The first image that comes to my or anyones mind at that is that of the shower seen where alot of big things happen; they show the toilet and they have that screechy little "Eeh Eeh" that has been featured in many  many more movies do to the nature that it puts people on edge and makes them think something big is going to happen.

One hilarious thing I found in this movie is how badly Hitchcock wanted to go over the line of social norms. He was the first movie to show a toilet flushing, he showed a man in a womans dress, a man said "transvestite", and showed a woman in her underwear.(Its weird that people were edgy about something as insignificant as toilets back then.)

I really enjoyed the film that the black and white mood to it all made it seem all that much more real. I liked alot of the symbols in this movie. One that I thought I noticed was that Norman kept all of these stuffed birds around his office? That got me thinking, if birds ment freedom, then did him killing them and stuffing them up for show maybe mean he was trapped in that place because of something? Another thing was that I noticed most of the birds were predatory birds? Something for you to think about after you see this wonderful movie.

I would recomend this movie from any common folk to big movie buffs alike. It has one of the best ending I ever witnessed and I think just about anyone should see this movie.

Ben-Hur

8.5/10


"Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength." I thought this quote was an accurate depiction of the whole movie. Throughout the film I felt that Ben never forgave Messala for making him a slave and hate and revenge kept Ben alive through the whole movie. Although he may have tried as hard as he could to get back to his family that was a duty he was supposed to do back in those days, but the reason he wanted to get back so bad was to have his revenge on Messala.



Judah Ben-Hur

In this story that I actually enjoyed thoroughly we see a man named Ben-Hur who doesn't like the Roman Empire and refuses to follow what they stand for. In a small little nut shell the movie is a man is sent into slavery and through hard work and determination Ben gains his freedom and returns home and seeks revenge through an elaborate chariot race. Also a lot of bad has happened to Bens family which only fuels him more in wanting to kill Messala. His father loses his ability to walk, his mother and sister become lepers in the prison

 In this movie we meet such names as Pontius Pilate, Judah Ben-Hur, Messala, and even Jesus himself who I don't believe talked in the whole movie. Judah Ben-Hur was played beautifully by Charlton Heston with a lot of emotion and poise. Messala was played by Stephen Boyd and I thought he played a very good cocky, mean Roman. An enjoyable character I thought was Hugh Griffith who played Sheik Llderim. A quote from him made me laugh a bit "One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized."

Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars and I think it could win more. The cool thing I saw about the movie is that it didn't seem old by any means, I mean sure the graphics weren't up to par, but the story could have been made by a now a days producer. The movie has a running time of 212 minutes long and if I had to put this movie in a genre I don't think I would be able to due to the fact that it has so many different parts to it that I couldn't do it.

If you are between the ages of 16 and 115 I think that you would like this movie. It was an enjoyable yet long movie with lots of twists and turns. You would like this.