Before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, one thing missing from cinema was the dark, the morbid side of Hitchcock (which we only glimpsed in Shadow of a Doubt and Strangers on a Train). Psycho made us look within for evil. As my mother and the Scooby Doo show like to put it, “Humans are the real monsters.” But Psycho didn’t stop there. It ripped open the cover, showing us how evil seeps into the human psyche in the ugliest ways, especially when your mind is locked away into darkness. Regarding this, I feel a particular scene in Psycho needs to be discussed. To me, it’s the very moment that marked the beginning of a new kind of horror—the one that deals with the human psyche, AKA our inner demons.In this article, let’s examine that very moment from Psycho: the conversation between Norman Bates and Marion, where he tells her about his mother and how “She just goes a little mad sometimes.” Just like “we all go a little mad sometimes.”The final blow comes from his rhetorical question when he asks Marion, “Haven’t you?”Let’s dive in. To Give You a Little Context… Marion, an office worker, is tired of her life. She has a lover, but they cannot afford to get married because his ex-wife is draining most of his money in alimony. She has a job that she would love to quit immediately. So, when her employer entrusts her with $40,000 to be deposited in the bank, she decides to run away...
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