Q1. How did Bates split his motherhood?
The film explained that Bates was jealous of his mother's remarriage, and felt guilty after killing his mother. He stole his mother's bones and tried his best to restore his mother's face. He began to imitate her way of speaking, and finally split his mother's independent personality.
Q2. Can conversations between personalities be possible at the same time? ?
Q3. Why was Bates’ personality finally eliminated, leaving only the mother’s personality?
Regarding a scene where Marian and Sam had a tryst at the beginning of the film, Truffau quoted another French film critic to joked to Hitchcock: The heroine Marian only wore a bra and night skirt, while her boyfriend Sam had only the upper body naked. , The lower part of the body is neatly dressed in pants, so the beginning of this film can only make half of the audience happy. Although Truffaut’s words are mostly a joke, they do reflect a long-standing reality in American movies, which is that the audience of the film is assumed to be male; therefore, it is necessary to show the female body as the object of male viewing on the screen, while the male’s The body does not have to show, because women's desires do not need to be considered.
The relationship between Norman and his mother in "The Cry" is an example of a typical Oedipus complex. Freud proposed the Oedipus complex when expounding the material and source of dreams. He analyzed the ancient Greek "Oedipus King" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and pointed out: "The fate of all of us may be directed towards our mother, and the original hatred and primitive killings. Desire is aimed at our father.... But we are luckier than him, because we have not become psychoneurotics. We have successfully got rid of the sexual impulse towards our mother and at the same time have forgotten the jealousy of our father. Obviously, Norman became a mentally ill patient because he did not forget his love for his mother and jealousy for his father like ordinary people. He would not suppress his original desire like ordinary people, so he would kill himself. The actions of the mother and the mother’s lover later became schizophrenic because of a heavy sense of guilt. The killing of Marianne by the "mother" attached to Norman also made us notice that the other side of the son’s obsession with the mother is Mothers can also be jealous of women who are close to their sons.
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