A few points that got me thinking

Eryn 2022-04-22 07:01:01

Before I watched this movie, I thought it was some kind of horror movie with supernatural elements, so I was more scared. After watching it, I found out that it was a horror movie with a criminal color. The following is just to express my personal opinion.

The first is about forty-five minutes ahead, about the story of the heroine who stole 40,000 yuan and ran away. Maybe I didn't take it seriously enough, but the question is, isn't the 40,000 yuan to help Sam pay off the debt? In the end, he ran away by himself and did not tell anyone his whereabouts.

Regarding the plot design of the $40,000 in the early stage, I actually did not understand the plot of the $40,000 at first, but after thinking about it, I think $40,000 serves as a clue for the film to connect different plots. If Marion didn't steal $40,000, but committed other crimes (of course, it should be unlikely according to the character), so there is no plot of hiring a private detective (the purpose of hiring a private detective is to not solve the problem of stealing money legally. problem), and the police should investigate the case later. If Marion is just a missing person, whether the police can find the Bates Hotel is another matter. by Norman). In addition, maybe $40,000 can better reflect people's balance between money and human life. Maybe the owner of $40,000 only cares about "where is my $40,000?" It was Marion who caused him to lose his money. But I also agree with the other idea, that is, the director wants to avoid the audience coming up with the view of the story behind.

In the end, there seems to be a contradiction between the confessions of the psychiatrist and the mother, Norman, because I watched it with my roommates, so I immediately shared my views with them after reading it.

The psychiatrist said he learned everything from Norman's mother, and the psychiatrist also said that Norman's mother killed the man. But later from the confession, Norman's mother said: "How sad when a mother has to convict her own son." The dialogue between the two seems to be contradictory? I think either the psychiatrist has something and deduces from the dialogue that the murderer is the mother; or the Norman personality tricked the psychologist into thinking that his mother was the murderer, but he actually killed the person himself.

The psychiatrist also said that the mother's personality occupies the body for a long time, but why does the mother's confession say that she is powerless and can't do anything?

However, I have also seen other film reviews saying that Norman loves his mother very much. In the film, he also said: "A son's best friend is his mother." I think it is precisely because Norman has an Oedipal complex, So he felt that his mother would be jealous of the girls who were close to him (the psychiatrist also said in the film "Norman felt that his mother was jealous of him"), and Norman himself may have very much hoped that his mother would be jealous of those girls, and hoped that his mother would treat those girls Killing, so when Norman committed the murder, he would put on his mother's clothes to commit the murder, creating an illusion for himself that "it was the mother who was jealous of these girls and killed these girls".

In the video Norman shouted "I'm Norman Bates!" when he took a knife to assassinate the heroine's sister Is his own son the murderer?

However, we can't see the dialogue between the psychiatrist and Norman. Which view is right? I think each has its own reasons. In the world of psycho, as normal people, who knows?

Finally, congratulations to edg for winning the championship.

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Extended Reading
  • Randy 2021-10-20 18:59:01

    Let's look at Norman's last smile, the hair is terrifying!

  • Hollis 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    It should be the best work of Fatty Xi's life: when Marion drove in the rain, the voice-over and the sound of the rain combined perfectly, and the scene of the murder in the bathroom was a groundbreaking feat! In the end, the horror smile of the hero and the scene of the skeleton superimposed on top of each other made the horror even more terrifying.

Psycho quotes

  • Norman Bates: [voice-over] Now mother, I'm going to uh, bring something up...

    Norma Bates: [voice-over] Haha... I am sorry, boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders.

    Norman Bates: [voice-over] Please, mother.

    Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of it, least of all my big, bold son!

    Norman Bates: [voice-over] They'll come now, mother! He came after the girl, and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it's just for a few days, just for a few days so they won't find you!

    Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Just for a few days"? In that dark, dank fruit cellar? No! You hid me there once, boy, and you'll not do it again, not ever again; now get out! I told you to get out, boy.

    Norman Bates: [voice-over] I'll carry you, mother.

    Norma Bates: [voice-over] Norman! What do you think you're doing? Don't you touch me, don't! NORMAN! Put me down, put me down, I can walk on my own...

  • Sam Loomis: You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?

    Sheriff Al Chambers: Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?

    Sam Loomis: Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!

    Sheriff Al Chambers: You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?

    Lila Crane: It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.

    Sheriff Al Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?