Conspiracy Of Psycho

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The finest scene in this film was when they finally cracked the mystery of Psycho. When Marion’s sister went down the stairs in Normans house and discovered the corpse of his mom. After that she screamed and then Norman came dressed as his mother ready to kill her, but then Sam comes and holds him back and his face expression and movement was ridiculous, ludicrous. You can even see that Lila was flabbergasted because she immediately stopped screaming and gasped. Then his weave came out, which made me burst into tears. But after all that action he would stop tripping out and he did this without making a sound just mouth movement. This I did not expect. It was like scary and funny at the same

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