Psycho

Psycho was known as the first horror/thriller movies in film making in the early 1960's. This film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and included movie stars, Anthony Perkins and Janet Zeigh. I think a significant factor that made this film a success was the picking of actors and actresses to be used in the film. The decsion of making Anthony Perkins play the part of Norman Bates in the film was remarkable, the use of a young handsome and harmless charming man to suddenly shoke the audience to a sudden twist of a bad guy and killer. The use of Janet Zeigh to play the part of Marian Crane was extra ordinary as well because she fit the part of a young, beautiful,pure and full of innocence woman in perfect condition. I thought that this film was very entertaining and well written for a black and white film. This black and white film was interesting in a way where the viewer wanted to continue to follow the story line and see what event was going to happen next. The use of duality (things meaning more than one thing) was suggested and pronouced throughout the viewers reactions while watching this film. The use of character parallels (mirror image two sides of personality) was greatly enhanced to the role of Norman Bates and this was unpredicted from the audience. The reaction to the split personalities of Norman Bates to his evil mother was high from the writors to viewers. The struggles that Norman had in this film was belevied to be caused from the rough childhood he had, with the death of his father at a young age and the sickness of his mother. I felt that the additional use of attack birds throughtout the film added to the tension and suspense of fear. In alot of ways Norman held the same factor of looking down on his prey( Marion) similar to the sense of a attack bird. Overall, i enjoyed the twist of the story and unpredictional suspense that made the viewers wondering what the outcome will turn out to be.