Psycho: An Insane Film
...created this entirely adjacent world that you just fell into and you just wanted to stay and watch and see what happens. Ebert says that the Marion Crane story is an adequate setup for a Hitchcock movie and never for a moment feels like material manufactured to mislead us. I completely agree. I think it was genius to set up the story completely on the supposed main character, Marion Crane and killing her about a third of the way through the movie. It produced a kind of “anything can happen” kind of feeling throughout the movie and I think that’s one of the films best qualities. Ebert also brings up the fact that when first introduced, Norman seems like a completely normal, innocent, kind of nerdy person. I think t...