Hitchcock: In Psycho, I was always in control of the audience's attention as much as I was playing the organ.
The core and most important of a suspense thriller is the ups and downs of the plot. Only by constantly making the audience worried and curious can the audience truly be brought into the story and atmosphere created by the film. In the first half of the film, when the audience focused their attention on "Will Marilyn be caught?", the director arranged a "bathroom murder scene", which made the audience suddenly turn their attention to "Who killed?" Marilyn" is a more violent problem, and in the process of solving this problem, the director also does not forget to "play" the audience by breaking or subverting the existing cognition.
A good story needs solid and subtle details to support it. When Norman and Marilyn chatted, the bird specimens with different strengths behind them, from the "trap" in the conversation to the "sewers" in the bathtub to the "swamp", Norman's slightly twisted hips when he went upstairs, The foreshadowing details such as the two mirrors facing each other in the room make the truth more evidence-based. Of course, the poignant, thrilling soundtrack; the gloomy, desolate setting; and the twisted, crazy characters all make the classic worthy of a classic.
"Psycho" created a precedent for psychological thrillers, and also gave thrillers more "playing methods". The same type of high-scoring movie "Deadly ID" proved to us that the classic core will never be outdated.
View more about Psycho reviews
