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Jeffery 2022-10-01 23:02:40

Hitchcock is known as a master of suspense, but for him, suspense is not about making the plot confusing, but the audience has a premonition from the development of the story (he likes to let the audience See a time bomb under the table), but don’t let you know how the protagonist will get out of trouble.
This statement is suitable for most of his films, but "The Mental Patient" is not. This film uses the consistent style of flashbacks, allowing the plot to naturally change from the audience's speculation again and again. From the murder of the murder to the final revealing of the truth, the director shocked people time and time again. And the ending that finally came to light is unbelievable, but it is almost perfect after thinking about it-in order not to affect the students who have never watched the film, there is no spoiler here.
Marion (Janet Leigh played by Janet Leigh) works in Phoenix, Arizona, and hurriedly meets with her boyfriend at noon every day, but her boyfriend refuses to divorce because he says that he has no money to support his ex-wife. On this day, Marion had to deposit $40,000 into the bank for her boss, and on an impulse, she decided to donate and abscond. It rained again after she changed cars along the way. She was suffering physically and mentally when she saw a Bez Motel on the side of the road, so she decided to stay overnight.
The owner of the Bates Motel, Norman (Anthony Perkins) is a young man with a good personality, but he is in awe of the mother in the room. Marion just wanted to get through tonight, but was killed in terror while she was in the shower.
Marion's younger sister Lila (VeraMiles) followed her missing sister all the way and stayed in the Baez Motel. Private detective Milton helped Lila target Norman. Everything seems to be related to Norman's mother. What is the sacred mother who controls her son?

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Psycho quotes

  • Samuel 'Sam' Loomis: Bob! Run out and get yourself some lunch, will you?

    Bob Summerfield: Oh, that's okay, Sam, I brought it with me.

    Samuel 'Sam' Loomis: Run out and eat it!

  • Dr. Fred Simon: Like I said... the mother... Now to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother... that is, from the mother half of Norman's mind... you have to go back ten years, to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Now he was already dangerously disturbed, had been ever since his father died. His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world. Then she met a man... and it seemed to Norman that she 'threw him over' for this man. Now that pushed him over the line and he killed 'em both. Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all... most unbearable to the son who commits it. So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind. He stole her corpse. A weighted coffin was buried. He hid the body in the fruit cellar. Even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep. And that still wasn't enough. She was there! But she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her, give her half his time, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother. And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was jealous of him. Therefore, if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman, the mother side of him would go wild.

    [Points finger at Lila Crane]

    Dr. Fred Simon: When he met your sister, he was touched by her... aroused by her. He wanted her. That set off the 'jealous mother' and 'mother killed the girl'! Now after the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep. And like a dutiful son, covered up all traces of the crime he was convinced his mother had committed!