Nevertheless, we still have to ask, why did Bates kill his mother? What is the state of his life? How did his relationship with his mother develop to the point where he couldn't manage it? Unfortunately, neither Mr. Hitchcock nor Mr. Anthony Perkins answered these questions completely and clearly-although the latter appeared in three "Psycho" (Psycho), so after the death of the two "parties", the following The story can only be guessed out of thin air by later generations.
A&E’s latest psychological thriller "Bates Motel" (Bates Motel) is honored to take on this important task, and the first question this series must answer is what kind of mother and son Norman and his mother Norma Louise Bates are. relation.
The relationship between Norman and Norma is as paradoxically as their names. When Mr. Bates died unexpectedly, Norman got up from the bed as if he had received some apocalypse, and panicked looking for the whereabouts of his parents, while Norma was now locked in the bathroom "shower." At the same time, in the kitchen pot. The steam was gurgling, and the iron was also spitting out steam tirelessly beside it. The first mention of the mother and son in this play adds a new weight to the questioning side of the balance. As a result, the old question has not been answered, and new doubts have emerged.
When we saw the mother and son again, half a year had passed. The widow Norma and the 17-year-old Norman came to a seaside town, bought an abandoned hotel, and embarked on Norman
Bates's path to darkness. Of course, this road is not "all smooth sailing." The appearance of several girls adds a touch of color to the play, and it seems to inject a touch of lightness into the depressed space, but this does not stop the play from driving to the wheels of hell.
The first half of the first episode of "Bates Hotel" slowly unfolded this paradoxical story, and the second half brought another storm. Norman saw his mother murder for the first time, participated in this thrilling corpse destruction operation for the first time, and thought of leaving his mother Norma's control for the first time... Interestingly, these "firsts" constitute Norman.
The first step of Bates’ countless crimes also showed the audience for the first time the strange relationship between mother and son that resembles a mother and a lover—don’t forget, Norman also quoted in order to express his “love” for his mother, Norma. A romantic love story in "Jane Eyre".
Anthony Perkins portrayed a weak Norman and a crazy Norman in the 1960 version of the film. Now Freddie Highmore has taken over the mantle of his predecessors and interprets this role once again. However, it is different from Hitchcock's lens of Norman, the Norman played by Highmore is more like a harmless cub-we can still vaguely see the shadow of the boy who owns the chocolate factory in his eyes. Unfortunately, after the baptism in this episode, he is no longer Charlie Bucket, not Peter Llewelyn Davies, not Evan Taylor, but the future Norman Bates.
Compared to Highmore's relatively young age, Vera Farmiga gave the show a different feeling, at least the producers hope so. Norma Louise Bates played by Farmiga is not a competent mother, but a lioness with a strong desire for protection. Although the audience's understanding of Norma for decades has basically remained at the stage of mummy and Norman Bates, this has not stopped our curiosity, nor has it stopped us from guessing the bad influence of this mother on our son. . Perhaps, after this episode, we will slightly understand why Norman's tomorrow will be so bad.
In addition to the peculiar relationship between mother and son in the first episode, the show also uses a few shots and a few soundtracks to lead the audience back to the 1950s and 1960s. In other words, the first few minutes of this episode are full of nostalgia, especially when Norma parked an antique Mercedes under an equally old hotel sign, which made the young audience of the new century feel very strange and fresh. Later, at the instigation of a few girls, Norman took a mobile phone to board a cool sports car, and went away... Nostalgia and trendy intersect in such a peculiar way, thus giving the audience a kind of The strangeness of time and space interlaced, and when this strangeness is connected with the strangeness of the Bates family, a more strange and strange flower was born like this.
Throughout the play, it gives people a kind of mystery and a strange feeling, as if they have broken into the peculiar world of minds of the mentally ill-as the new sign of the hotel rises, the question becomes even stronger. Today, 53 years later, the audience originally thought that the old question mark lingering in their minds would gradually be replaced by answers, but the actual situation is just the opposite. It seems that all we need now is patience, but this time, don't let us wait for another half a century.
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