Best Film Ever Made !

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2002)

Psycho is the best film ever made ! I´ve no doubt about it ! It´s perfect ! The direction is perfect and it passes to the viewer the sensation of the bizarre , the suspense , the mystery and the dark mood as Hitchcock pretended to show. It´s a real shocker !
The screenplay is out of this world ! Joseph Stefano is a genius ! He and Mr. Hitchcock tricked us ! Everybody thought that It was a film about Marion Crane , a girl confused about her relationship with Sam Loomis , that decides to steal forty thousand dollars ! So we try to figure out how was she going to handle the situation ! But It ain´t the main point anyway ! Joseph and Hitchcock gave us a bait and we bit it !
This movie is well remembered by the very imitated shower scene ! Hitchcock (with the help of Saul Bass) designed it and used montage in this scene and it worked very well !
This film would not be the same without Mr. Hitchcock (off course) , Joseph Stefano and more two people : Bernard Herrmann and Anthony Perkins !
Bernard Herrmann composed an "all made of strings" dark music to Psycho and at nowadays it´s suspense synonymous ! It´s brilliant ! My personal favorite song is in that scene when Marion decides to steal the money and she is making her baggage ! By the way , that shot was a masterpiece too ! Hitchcock told us everything without a word (as in the beginning of Rear Window) , just showing the baggage , the money and Marion´s face ! Amazing ! Thrilling !
Anthony Perkins gave us the best interpretation in a motion picture ever ! Norman Bates is a very well developed character ! Tony is great as the fragile boy dominated by his crazy mother ! He has a strange glamour that make us believe that he´s innocent and he´s trying to hide the truth about his mother ! You still thinking : "It can´t be ! He seems to be a good man !".
It´s hard to me to describe the film that changed my life and the way I watched movies ... I didn´t know that a picture could be art ! I´m fanatic for this film ! If you have a chance , RENT IT , BUY IT , STEAL IT ... Whatever ! :)
Rating : Perfect.