Hitch is God of Film

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2007)

Hitchcock is one fine storyteller.
The narrative style is told through the music for the most horrific scenes shown. One other particular scene in which Marion is driving on the freeway toward her boyfriend. The thoughts in her head are coming from first person POV. The majority of the story is told through an overall audience narrative. What we see is what happening. But that isn't always true. There were moments where the story was depicted through the core characters personality. It focuses mainly upon Norman's personality. We really feel what he is going through towards the end and we sympathize slightly as mother takes over his persona. Norman is the central character. His interaction with Marion drives his mother to take over his actions. His mother was a pivoting person in his life. He feels as if his mother won't let him live so his dominate personality takes over permanently at the end. The way everything ties in when it starts with going down a different road, literally. Marion faces choices in the beginning. Weighing of the good with the bad emphases each of her decisions. She has the choice to do the right thing, but she takes a risk and is cramped up into a corner. As soon as she decides to change her mind, she is stopped. Director Alfred Hitchcock shows us that things aren't what they seem just because you think you're doing the right thing for yourself. No matter how much you cover up the evidence, you will be caught and sentenced. The deaths are filmed just a painting come to life. When Detective Arboghast gets killed, he falls backward and we are propelled with him as he tumbles to the floor receiving repetitive stabbings from Norman as mother. Just because you know what is right from wrong, doesn't mean that somehow you'll be pardoned. In Arboghast's position, he read more into the problem and ultimately, that was what killed him. He knew too much and would have told Sam and Lila had he the chance if he wasn't stabbed.
The POV in the film changes dramatically after Marion was stabbed. It was Norman's business from than on. The film drives us to believe the story is going to be about Marion when in fact, she was the trigger that set off Norman to be the main setting. But as Hitchcock shows us, Norman is an innocent in all of this. He was held captive by mother. She began dominating his actions more and more as the story progress. Another scene in which Hitchcock plays with POV was the scene where Norman was sitting in the station and asked for a blanket. A truly disturbing part of the scene in where he changed POV was when Norman's mother was complaining and blaming Norman for everything that happened to her. The final lines summed up the reasons why mother was so clever to get away with the things she got away with. "They'll see and they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even hurt a fly!'" It's a definitive film that means so many things but the main idea was that Hitchcock wanted to understand the main focus of the synopsis. Don't trust just anyone on the run. Truly the greatest terror film ever made!