Film Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock present Psycho, a thriller and horror movie that has been commended for forming a darker shocking territory film in the 1960’s. A secretary Marion Crane on the run after stealing 40,000 dollars from her employer to sprint away with her boyfriend Sam Lomis. Marion thought by stealing the money will erase the overwhelming debt. Hitchcock succeeds in capturing the audience early senses of awareness and suspicion while letting it to identify with Marion’s abandoned situation. The spectators pity toward Marion is sensitive with the introduction of Sam, crude and arrogant showed the dislike of his character. Sam’s statement that all unhappiness can be bought away with the money, enflames the audience to form a justification

Traveling on the road to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets a polite young man name Norman Bates. A young man with interest in unusual relationship with his mother, which later reveals the good and evil in two minds. It is with Marion’s appeal that Hitchcock first introduces the notion of a split personality to the audience. In the opening Marion’s image is often noted in fewer mirrors and windows, however the upper camera angles and the suitable placing of a mirror is able to convey the sense of a conscious mind that makes privacy impossible. In the beginning the camera zooms with a slanted angle. Still zooming into the window, the sunlit on the ream of the window but the dark black shadow on the bottom of the

The split personality motif reaches the height of its foreshadowing power as Marion battles both sides of her unaware while driving on the road. Marion wrestles with voices while driving, the voice over of people talking while the music is playing. The Diegetic voice overs while Mariam is driving while the camera stay into focus of her cringe expressions of trying to get away of stealing. The sound is very loud and sharp throughout the