Psycho

Psycho

In Media Studies, we have been watching Alfred Hitchcocks' famous "Psycho". It is a film made in 1960 about a woman named Marion Crane who finds herself in a difficult situation when her lover Sam Loomis has no money left from the divorce. However, she still wants to have a relationship with but wants to live comfortably. When she is at work later that day, a customer comes in flashing $40,000 that he has saved up for a new house. However, Marion takes the opportunity of giving it into the bank to make a run for it with the money and start afresh with Sam. On the journey when she flees, she encounters a policeman after having fallen to sleep at the side of the road. The police officer follows her to a car firm where she buys a refurbished car with cash. Later that night she stops off at the Bates Motel. She meets Norman Bates who shows her to her room, number 1. She asks why it's so empty and he tells her that the road used to lead down the old motorway but now people only ever go because they got lost, this too is her reason for being there. When Norman Bates brings Marion to her room he then invites her to his office for something to eat. After a while talking to Norman and eating, Marion goes back to her room and gets into the shower. However, while she's enjoying her shower someone enters the room and viciously kills her with a knife. This is the beginning of a series of violent murders that occur throughout the film. When there is no word from Marion, her lover Sam and her sister Lila are visited by a detective who says that Marion has stolen $40,000. This leads to a frantic search for her that results in the detective also dying. Towards the end of the film, both Sam and Lila go to the Bates Motel and enquire about Norman Bates last few guests. While Sam holds Norman up Lila searches for any clues about Marion and finds a chair, she turns it round and there is the skeleton of Normans mother. Then Norman enters the room in his mothers' clothes and holding a knife, however as he approaches Lila, he is wrestled to the ground by Sam who had recovered from a bash round the head by Norman. At the end of the film, Norman is in the police station and we see him talking in his mothers voice. The doctor then says that he has been overtaken by his mothers spirit.