The Best Picture of Hitchcock

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2016)

Of all the films Alfred Hitchcock is the most famous, the scariest, the most unexpired, the most innovative and unique, despite countless attempts to reproduce this success. However, during the life of the Maestro, no one dared to direct the sequel, and only in 80-e years have appeared three "Psychosis" and "Psycho III" was shot by actor Anthony Perkins, who almost all his life became a kind of hostage to his role of serial killer Norman Bates. But thousands of all kinds of thrillers, chillers, suspension, shockers and other newly formed genres, efforts were made to intimidate the audience with what Hitchcock techniques. It would seem that "Psychosis" was to suffer the fate of some outstanding paintings pilfered, that is, on HR and even angles. The halo of glory around masterpieces often makes overly picky to determine their real incorruptibility. But "Psychosis" still draws from the first seconds, holds incredible tension and scares to shiver. Alfred Hitchcock was sensitive to the internal mechanism of the creation of fear and like an experienced psychiatrist, he knew of a secret nerve endings, touching whom are able to bring a state of uncontrolled psychosis, a genuine nightmare. Unlike many imitators, the "master of fear knew that fear breeds deep within us and not outside. The Director forces us to be afraid primarily of their own assumptions, conjecture, foreboding, happening fancy, just designing myself a terrible starting situation. The viewer inevitably identifies himself with a young Secretary Marion crane, caught by night in a secluded Motel. His owner Norman Bates has a secret, which unravels along with the heroine, who is in double danger, as her on suspicion of stealing money from the Bank is wanted by the police. And it is precisely the nightmare that is hidden in everyday reality, psychosis seemingly normal world — that is the main thing, the fear of the people in the tapes of Hitchcock.
In the "Psychosis" this feeling pushed to the limit, to the border territory, beyond which is the abyss of madness. And, accordingly, honed to perfection all cinematic techniques, means of artistic expression: from the brilliant to the oppressive music of Bernard Herrmann. The genuine innovations in which formal search is always meaningful, "tied up" in the story and accurately understood, still continue to strongly influence several decades later. And in the movie, as in most technical form of art, famous works, and especially, with innovative refinements, saved even harder. This film is still an absolute masterpiece of cinematic professionalism, skillful involvement of spectators in the game of fear. Incidentally, he was also among the most cash in the long career of Hitchcock (budget of $0.8 million was surpassed at the box office in forty times!), and the picture looked in the USA, over fifty million viewers.