`What are you running away from?'

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2002)

Imagine you are running for a bad reason.While you're driving the car,your mind figure it out situations.You know you did wrong and that remorse haunts you.Outside: it's rainy night.Take a detour.Off the main road Our Protagonist sees `Bates Motel Vacancy'.She will spent the night there and the caretaker Norman Bates will become your own Executioner!.You won't live to tell the story!!!.
Marion begins to reconsiders.She plans to repent,redeem herself and return the money.Her repentance is her punishment(later we see the famous `shower/murder' scene).
This film has so many great scenes.My favorite one is Their long conversation over Marion's dinner in the "parlor" under the watchful eyes of Norman's birds Norman at first wins our confidence by making embarrassing revelations about himself - "A hobby should pass the time, not fill it"; and, much more surprisingly, "A son is a poor substitute for a lover." But his anger over Marion's suggestion that he have Mother committed, an anger that seems to grow with its expression, almost without limit, is frightening.
Marion's "good night" to Norman are the last words she will ever speak, and the last words we will hear for the next 16 minutes (other than Norman's "Oh, God, Mother! Blood! Blood!). Another great one is the last scene(little spoiler) We then get our final glimpse of Norman, staring helplessly, while Mother gives us her side of the story through the voice over. She finishes by saying that she's just going to sit here like the harmless old lady she is. Suddenly, the focus returns to Norman's eyes. He looks right at us and grins menacingly If you enjoyed this Masterpiece I recommend you another Hitchcock film"The Lodger".
In appearance, Norman is surprisingly reminiscent of the (very) young Gregory Peck of Spellbound (1945), Norman is play by Anthony Perkins.
The Gothic Style victorian house behind the motel on a hill is exactly like the Edward Hopper's painting "The House by the Railroad". 9/10