PSYCHO's breaking waves still shock the film world

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2019)

Although it is virtually impossible to replicate the effect of the original release in 1960, "Psycho" remains a disturbing and macabre psychological thriller where we watch a meticulous work with the camera that thickens the suspense coupled with the soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann and Anthony Perkins's performance of Norman Bates, in addition to a most well-structured argument. This is quintessential Hitchcock, inspired by the true case of the murderer Ed Gein. Hitch then frankly defied the limits of the already agonizing, though still active Production Code. "Psycho" addressed such themes as adultery, homicide, Oedipus Complex, transvestism, mental disorder, exhumed bodies, everything exposed both subtly and graphically. "Psycho" introduced us to an antagonist of enormous psychological density; a psychopath with indelible mental disorders whose causes and motives were only fully discovered in the whodunit's climax.