Hitchcock’s magical cinematic technique is enough to scare us., Reivew on Psycho

This representative horror thriller in film history is the most talked-about film in Hitchcock's movies. It can be said that this film is a pure film expression of Hitchcock's complete cinematic sense. He abandoned some of the familiar routines in his previous movies and truly stimulated the audience through visuals rather than plots. Nowadays, whenever people mention this film, they often inevitably talk about the classic bathroom murder scene in the film. From this we can see Hitchcock’s brilliance. He doesn’t show bloody things realistically. In fact, the knife didn’t even touch the victim’s body in this scene, and Hitchcock used superb editing. Skills make us believe that we have seen the knife pierced into the body, which shows that this lifelike horror leaves us with inexhaustible imagination. Hitchcock believes that the most nervous thing is not the disgusting way of death, but the silence brewing before death. The climax of the bathroom murder scene was only forty-five seconds, and Hitchcock took almost seven days to shoot, and the camera shifted as many as sixty times. In terms of visual effects, the film is an unforgettable nightmare for the audience, and Hitchcock is the genius maker of this nightmare. The reason why this movie is made in black and white is to prevent the audience from being blood-stained visual stimulation, but even so, Hitchcock's magical cinematic technique is enough to scare us. For Hitchcock, while he displays almost perfect storytelling skills, he also has a deep understanding of human nature and psychological state. All these have made his films sublimated into a unique and difficult to imitate art classic. We tend to learn

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