Kora Lahm
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The film Psycho was made on September 8, 1960, by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was Hitchcock’s most successful film and it’s said to be the best horror film of all time. Most of the film focuses on Marion Crane, a Phoenix real-estate secretary. Marion was trusted by her employer to take $40,000 to the bank, but she sees the opportunity to take the money and start a new life. With the money, she leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. During a storm, she gets off the highway and goes to The Bates Motel. Norman manages The Bates Motel, and greets Marion when she enters. Norman is a quiet person who seems controlled by his mother.
Psycho was a low-budget film in black and white. Hitchcock had made multiple other …show more content…
Marion was trusted by her boss to take $40,000 to the bank. She ended up keeping the cash for herself and fleeing. From the moment she took the cash, the fear and guilt began to grow inside her. All she wanted was to take control of her life and start over. She never did it just because she wanted to buy a few expensive things for herself. Since she was doing it to move on in life and not for selfish reasons, she seemed relatively innocent and even sympathetic. Marion understood the struggles of life and could sympathize with others going through their own …show more content…
Back in the day, no one really understood or talked about mental illness, making this particular scene necessary to tie everything together. The explanation was that Norman Bates had murdered his mother and her lover 10 years prior, because of his jealousy. In order to preserve the illusion that his now-exhumed mother was still alive, Norman created an alternate personality. His mother personality is just as jealous and possessive as real Miss Bates had been, so when Norman felt attracted to another woman, the “Mother” would get furious and kill
Hour: 1
The film Psycho was made on September 8, 1960, by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was Hitchcock’s most successful film and it’s said to be the best horror film of all time. Most of the film focuses on Marion Crane, a Phoenix real-estate secretary. Marion was trusted by her employer to take $40,000 to the bank, but she sees the opportunity to take the money and start a new life. With the money, she leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. During a storm, she gets off the highway and goes to The Bates Motel. Norman manages The Bates Motel, and greets Marion when she enters. Norman is a quiet person who seems controlled by his mother.
Psycho was a low-budget film in black and white. Hitchcock had made multiple other …show more content…
Marion was trusted by her boss to take $40,000 to the bank. She ended up keeping the cash for herself and fleeing. From the moment she took the cash, the fear and guilt began to grow inside her. All she wanted was to take control of her life and start over. She never did it just because she wanted to buy a few expensive things for herself. Since she was doing it to move on in life and not for selfish reasons, she seemed relatively innocent and even sympathetic. Marion understood the struggles of life and could sympathize with others going through their own …show more content…
Back in the day, no one really understood or talked about mental illness, making this particular scene necessary to tie everything together. The explanation was that Norman Bates had murdered his mother and her lover 10 years prior, because of his jealousy. In order to preserve the illusion that his now-exhumed mother was still alive, Norman created an alternate personality. His mother personality is just as jealous and possessive as real Miss Bates had been, so when Norman felt attracted to another woman, the “Mother” would get furious and kill