Aw, what a sweet....psychopath?!

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2016)

This film by Alfred Hitchcock does a very good job of hiding the twist ending that comes. My summary line doesn't even begin to tell of what one can expect to see when viewing this film. Through use of close-ups, Hitchcock shows us the facial expression of how a particular character feels by minor changes in their face, even more so their eyes. He enjoys the use of reverse shots, but in his case, I feel they up the sense of suspense through primarily upping the tension one feels during this movie after the famous shower scene. Because if that happened within the first 20 minutes of the film, when will the next, over an hour, time left of this film?! So Hitchcock already has us invested and a bit uneasily inquisitive, to where we're itching to want to low what happens next. The magnetic film is also accentuated by the use of voice-overs not by the on- screen person. The 2 main ones are during the time Marion Crane rushed away into the night after she's committed her crime; the second was at the end, when inner voices, voices that may or may not be one's own, come out to play and act very "tell tale heart" with how easily the latter contributes. This film will shock, captivate, and engaging discussion, and a lack of realism that is beneficial to the telling of the film. If one has not seen it, buyer beware, the shower scene will forever be scorched into your memory.