Psycho opens up with the caption “Phoenix, Arizona… Friday, December the

Eleventh… Two Forty Three PM.” In this specific time and location lend the film a

truth. The title credits appear and are slashed apart; this corresponds with the film as its

murders are performed with a slashing butcher knife. Alfred Hitchcock directed psycho.

The movie was a bit shocking and viewers never knew what was in store. The murder of

Marion, who was the apparent heroine, occurred within the first hour of the movie.

Hitchcock treated Marion and Norman as if they would be developed into the entire

movie. Norman Bates seems to be a nervous and harmless person, although his spying

on Marion as she strips and his fascination with death. His personality is divided

between himself and his mother’s. Marion arouses part of Norman as well as repulses

him. However, in mother, murder reinforces her relationship with her son. To Norman

the murders are his most intimate sexual exchanges.

At the time of its release, in the 1960’s, the movie was a courageous and explicit

film, dealing with brutal murder and risqué sexual situations. The

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