Technique

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2008)

The whole movie, in my opinion, was very well thought out. Alfred H. began the uses of bringing the viewer into the show, rather than having them just view it. The scene in the movie where Norman Bates (playing his mother) begins to stab the woman in the shower is most interesting to me. Not because of the great sound effects but the set up itself. When Norman begins to stab the woman, notice how he holds the knife, notice how he stabs downward. It is statistically known that when men stab with a knife they hold it in such a way where they stab upward. Women on the other hand stab downward. I like to think that Hitchcock was genius enough and thorough enough to add this technique into the movie. Norman was dressed as his mother, therefore, was in complete character to stab like a woman.