Psycho English Assignment
1:) The opening moments of Psycho suggest a documentary, with exact time and place indicated. What might be a viewer’s expectations after such an opening?
1.) Answer:
The opening moments of the film may be shown or hinted to be a documentary because they want you to be involved in the life of the characters of the film for example: A documentary involves You in the life's or events of whatever the documentaries about. The viewers of the film when involved in with a documentary are forced to be involved with them or forced to be incorporated with them because the film/documentary is about them and nothing else. The film involves me in the beginning when Marion and Sam are in the room together I thought perhaps …show more content…
Norman is a lonely shy young man when Marion first meets him at the hotel. When Norman first meets her he's very quiet and shy with his words and really thinks and hesitates with his words, I think he's not wanting to embarrass himself. Were suppose to feel bad for him cause all he has is his mother at this stranded hotel in the middle of no where, he only has his mother, no friends or other family. Although he has a “hobby” he doesn't like to consider it a hobby. He said “a hobby is something to pass the time, not fill it” Hitchcock encourages this identification by making us feel he's all alone and he is. When he Norman says this line “a hobby is suppose to pass the time, not fill it” Hitchcock wants us to think and feel that Is the only thing he does and had no personal life. When Marion considers taking his mother to a “place” he's very defensive toward the idea cause Norman knows how it feels to be alone and by himself in a dark damp place because that where his dual personality Mother …show more content…
I had a lot of unanswered questions about certain aspects in the film. The final scene when the psychiatrist explained all what had to be explained it made a lot more sense to me and what actually happened in the film. I feel Hitchcock included it because people like me had a lot of questions that needed explaining and he knew people would be guessing and sod wrong what it all meant. Yes this serves to explain the movies ending. What is left out to explain or consider is why he did this and who had been buried in Normans mothers
1:) The opening moments of Psycho suggest a documentary, with exact time and place indicated. What might be a viewer’s expectations after such an opening?
1.) Answer:
The opening moments of the film may be shown or hinted to be a documentary because they want you to be involved in the life of the characters of the film for example: A documentary involves You in the life's or events of whatever the documentaries about. The viewers of the film when involved in with a documentary are forced to be involved with them or forced to be incorporated with them because the film/documentary is about them and nothing else. The film involves me in the beginning when Marion and Sam are in the room together I thought perhaps …show more content…
Norman is a lonely shy young man when Marion first meets him at the hotel. When Norman first meets her he's very quiet and shy with his words and really thinks and hesitates with his words, I think he's not wanting to embarrass himself. Were suppose to feel bad for him cause all he has is his mother at this stranded hotel in the middle of no where, he only has his mother, no friends or other family. Although he has a “hobby” he doesn't like to consider it a hobby. He said “a hobby is something to pass the time, not fill it” Hitchcock encourages this identification by making us feel he's all alone and he is. When he Norman says this line “a hobby is suppose to pass the time, not fill it” Hitchcock wants us to think and feel that Is the only thing he does and had no personal life. When Marion considers taking his mother to a “place” he's very defensive toward the idea cause Norman knows how it feels to be alone and by himself in a dark damp place because that where his dual personality Mother …show more content…
I had a lot of unanswered questions about certain aspects in the film. The final scene when the psychiatrist explained all what had to be explained it made a lot more sense to me and what actually happened in the film. I feel Hitchcock included it because people like me had a lot of questions that needed explaining and he knew people would be guessing and sod wrong what it all meant. Yes this serves to explain the movies ending. What is left out to explain or consider is why he did this and who had been buried in Normans mothers