Psycho - 1960

Psycho-1960
The movie Psycho, is about the whereabouts of a missing women, Marion Crane and what really happened when she stayed at The Bates Motel.
Marion Crane is an office worker at a bank. After being fed up with her life, she steals the 40,000 trusted to her from her employer. Fleeing to her boyfriend Sam's California Store, she stops at a little Motel. A young shy man who manages the motel welcomes her. The young man called Norman is dominated by his mother. After Marion's death at the motel, young Norman and his mother are suspects.

Psycho was such a famous film because it stood out from the others. Not many films in that period of time could really confuse the audience and keep them guessing who the suspect was, from start to finish.
Because of the many similiar movies in this age and time, Psycho didn't  really capture my attention. I already guessed the ending before the movie had really begun. It was easy to foresee the plot.
I liked it up until he portrayed the other side of him. The side of his mother. I didn't find it particularly scary, just a tad funny.
It broke the conventions of time because of the style of filming and it's imaginative storyline.
the filming was very dull, giving the gloomy and suspenseful effect. The character Marion gave it even more of that gloomy feeling. Little symbols such as her bra, revealed how she turned from good to bad; in the beginning of the film, Marion wears a white bra representing her innocence and goodness. Before her death, she is wearing a black bra, representing her evil after she gave into temptation and stole the money. The screeching music increased the suspense and thrill of the movie. the storyline was unheard of then. A split personality wasn't well known then. I think the audience in those days would have guessed that either Norman or the mother was the killer. That's when the creative storyline truly makes this film remarkable.

Psycho revealed how people can't let go. The more Norman tried to hold onto the memory of his mother, the more his mother became apart of him and eventually, became him. Norman desperately clung to his mother so much, that he dressed in her clothes and pretended to be her; making conversations with himself, speaking in her exact voice.