Psycho 1960

I think the movie, Psycho is the best movie we've seen so far. Compared to the other two movies we have watched, King Kong and Casablanca, Psycho is much better. Psycho may be in black and white and not color, but it was much easier to understand the plot of the story than King Kong and Casablanca. In the beginning Marion stole $40,000 hoping to get away. She went to trade her car in for a new car and was running away not letting anybody know where she was running to and that she was running away. In this movie Marion started it off wearing all white clothing. But once she stole the money she changed from wearing white clothing to wearing all black clothing. She was feeling guilty and looking at herself in a mirror trying to decide whether or not to go through with taking the $40,000 and running. She eventually decides to go through with it and she goes right away before changing her mind. While she was driving along there was a bad rain storm, and she decides to turn into a motel for the night and continue in the morning. The motel was in a quiet area and was very small. The owner of the motel was Norman Bates, who seems like a nice person at first. The name of the motel was Bates Motel. The motel was sitting right next to Norman and his mother's house. When Marion checks in to the motel she is placed in room number one and Norman asks her to have dinner with him. He goes to make sandwiches and you can here him arguing with his mother about having dinner with Marion. He does go through with having dinner with Marion and they eat in the parlor. During the conversation Norman seems like a nice normal guy until he says that a Mother is a son's best friend. That's when you start to learn that Norman has issues and is not normal at all. While Marion and Norman are talking the camera angle is eye level with Marion and the camera has an angle pointing upwards at Norman to show Norman having power and Marion being threatened. Then when Marion goes to her room to take a shower and go to sleep Norman spies on her as she is getting into the shower. Next a person goes into the bathroom while Marion is taking a shower, who you are supposed to think is Norman's Mother. This person then stabs her multiple times, although you never see the knife go into Marion. Marion falls to the floor and bleeds to death. Norman then goes and wraps the body and puts it in the car and pushes it into the swamp. They send a detective to find Marion and he ends up getting stabbed too. Again at this point you are supposed to believe it is Norman's Mother that stabs the man. Then finally Marion's sister and boyfriend go to the motel to find out what happened to Marion. Marion's sister tries to find Norman's mother in the house and finds out it's his mother's skeleton and Norman tries to stab her, the boyfriend saves her. This movie is a great horror movie for this time period.