One such Hitchcock film that included plenty of murder and mystery is his suspense thriller Psycho. Psycho is a film that is very unpredictable. Hitchcock keeps the audience on its toes throughout the movie. He does a great job of misleading the audience and using certain decoys to stray the viewer’s thoughts. At no point in the film did I think it would end the way it did. Hitchcock’s brilliance once again keeps viewer’s eyes glued throughout the film.

Psycho begins with bird’s eye view of Phoenix along with the time 2:43 PM. The camera, apparently at random, shows many buildings and many windows before choosing one building and one window and before the audience is introduced to Marion and Sam.

The basic theme of the film that Hitchcock reveals to the audience is that of abnormalities and suspense. In the beginning of the movie, each character in the office had their own flaws. Most of Marion’s actions in the film were abnormal: the way she acted around the officer and car dealer.

At first after Marion’s death, you think the obvious choice for a murderer would be Norman’s mother because of the way she spoke to him in the house and Norman describing her as old and ill and Norman yelling, “oh mother, god, blood” (Psycho). Then Norman comes down to the bathroom and covers his mouth after what he saw. He then cleans up and gets rid of Marion.

When Marion returns to work, Hitchcock introduces some character flaws. The secretary Marion works with takes tranquilizers, Marion herself takes long lunch breaks and shows up late on Mondays, and the man buying the house for his daughter (Cassidy) is flirting with Marion. During this time in the office, Hitchcock seems as if he is provoking the audience to feel sympathy toward Marion by Cassidy’s arrogant actions toward Marion. It seems as if Cassidy, by saying that he can buy happiness, is somewhat provoking Marion to steal the $40,000 that he will be giving the real estate agency for the house. Marion’s boss tells her to deposit the money and take the rest of the afternoon off. Instead of depositing the money, Marion packs a suitcase and decides to head up to Fairdale and see Sam.

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