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.