Psycho analysis

Breakdown:

Psycho was a film about a women who stole 40 grand from her boss and ran away and stayed at a small motel that was not easily located. The man that owned started to gain an emotional and physical attachment to the women, because of this his "Mother" became jealous of her and killed the women. The owner of the motel did not know about the money and ended up hiding the body and the money in the trunk of a car and driving it into a swamp.

The boss of the company became suspicious as he noticed that the women who stole the money hadn't returned they begun looking for her at places like her flat. As they slowly picked up the trace the private eye that was working for the women's family got to the motel and went to ask the mother some questions he was murdered again by the "mother".

The son again cleared up the dead body.

As we got to the end of the film the women's sister and partner.  Go to the house and as the sister is searching she finds a dead body. She screams and someone runs at her with a knife. Luckily the women's partner holds the person back and we see that the mother was really the son dressed up in a wig and dressing gown.

We find out that the son actually killed his mother and her new partner. This is because he was mentally unstable from when his father died. So the son homed half of his mothers mind and sometimes the mother took over the whole of his body.

So he in the end was schizophrenic, split personalities. He was never fully his self he was either half his mother and his self. Or one hundred percent his mother. 

His "mother" killed these girls because of jealousy towards them because "she" wanted it to be just him and her and no one else.

Techniques:

Some of the techniques that were used was things like: 

A red herring. This is because we thought that when the sister entered the upstairs/ basement she would be killed with a knife like all of the others but it changes and we find out she is actually dead. 

Another technique that was used is a plot twist. This is because we think it is actually the mother killing everyone but we find out it is the son. It again twists by telling us it is actually the mother killing them but in another way it isn't the mother killing them.

Other:

The fact that the film was so interesting was that we thought there was no way that the old sick mother could have killed anyone. So this is what made us stay and watch the film. This time the villain was not after anything in particular this is why we was so interests because why would they be killing people for no reason. Then in the end we find out that the son is a "mad man". Or mentally unstable.

In this film there is again no single hero. This is because most of the people that we thought could possibly be the hero would of got killed.

Also in the terms of the film being called psycho it relates to the son who is one. Even though it is truly his fault because it was the death of his father. Then his mother loving another man that drove him over the line of holding his self in.

The way that Hitchcock expressed this is what makes the film so unbelievable this is because we truly didn't expect that the son would be in that type of state. This is because we was sure that we heard him talking to his "Mother" but we know now that he was talking to his self.

The way that Hitchcock present a lot of these scenes leaves a big impact on the audience. This is because people in that time was so scared of how open they were while in the shower that they started taking baths instead. One of the people that was affected by this was one of the actors called "Janet Leigh". One of the surprising things that happened in this film was that a lot of people went to watch it because the actor Janet Leigh was in it, but she was killed around 20 minutes into the film so people didn't get to see much of her actually in the film.