Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho 1960
This was my first time watching this film and I absolutely loved it. Overall, this for sure is a well done movie there is nothing I was dissatisfied with despite it being made in the 60's. I am a huge horror fan and I am used to the gory and graphic scenes depicted in these movies, so when I saw the scene when Marion is murdered and later the private detective being murdered, my reaction was to laugh at the scene because of how cheesy it is. As we discussed more about the film, I found it very helpful to know more about the context and boundaries this film pushed. I was very impressed to see the film kill off its main character Marion, since it is not the norm for this to happen. I was surprised by the quality of the film for its time, since I assumed because it was a film made long ago it would lack the quality, which was not the case.
I loved the editing and was very hooked to the movie the whole way through. To understand more about the choices of editing made in Psycho, we read Kaja Silvermans article on "Suture" and had class discussions on the reading and movie where we talked about the choices of shots and the idea of "Suture". It was very interesting to know of the analysis of the editing in Psycho as written about in Silvermans article, as well as "Suture" being this idea of losing oneself to gain the view of a character.
I really enjoyed discussions surrounding this film and Silvermans article and knowing more about film!
I appreciate your comment about laughing during the stabbing scene, because I had the exact same reaction! Even though I learned to appreciate the film and the effect it had on cinema, I still thought it was so funny the way they did the stabbing scene. I think our generation is just so desensitized to blood and gore, and it's funny when we see something that was considered "scary" all those years ago.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comment about laughing during the stabbing scene, because I had the exact same reaction! Even though I learned to appreciate the film and the effect it had on cinema, I still thought it was so funny the way they did the stabbing scene. I think our generation is just so desensitized to blood and gore, and it's funny when we see something that was considered "scary" all those years ago.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comment about laughing during the stabbing scene, because I had the exact same reaction! Even though I learned to appreciate the film and the effect it had on cinema, I still thought it was so funny the way they did the stabbing scene. I think our generation is just so desensitized to blood and gore, and it's funny when we see something that was considered "scary" all those years ago.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comment about laughing during the stabbing scene, because I had the exact same reaction! Even though I learned to appreciate the film and the effect it had on cinema, I still thought it was so funny the way they did the stabbing scene. I think our generation is just so desensitized to blood and gore, and it's funny when we see something that was considered "scary" all those years ago.
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