Posted on 06/17/2010 7:55:21 AM PDT by Borges
Why its really about the death of God. -
Like just about all the greatest movies, Psycho works on the level of myth. It starts out as a faintly chintzy morality play in which Marion Crane, though she made a big mistake, will presumably be chastened, redeemed, protected, and rewarded by a universe that saves those who save themselves. It turns into a movie in which no one not even a sinner who repents will be saved. And that, for the first time in Hollywood, is a truly godless world. You dont have to be Carl Jung to see that it was a game-changing reflection of what our world was becoming. Psycho cleaves the 20th century in half, turning order into chaos, ushering us into a new way of seeing, of being. Yet the movies ultimate paradox its there in the final shot of the car being dredged out of the swamp is that it lifts us up by dragging us down. Its monster is all too brutally real. At the same time, that monster really is a ghost Mrs. Bates doesnt even exist. So why does it trouble our sleep so when she goes bump in the night?
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Unless you're the ex-wife.
Check you local arthouse cinema, I know the one in Tucson (The Loft) is putting it on screen next Wednesday (23rd), I wouldn’t be surprised if others are having anniversary showing also.
The following two years were the worst time in American History to be a man (because all of the women were afraid to take showers...)
The scariest movie for me in a long time (don’t laugh) was the remake of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.
There was no way to get away from those things. Totally stressed me out.
Psycho didn’t really do it for me. But I love Hitchcock.
North by Northwest has to be his best movie.
Rear Window and Vertigo were good, though Vertigo kind of fizzled at the end.
Notorious is another good one.
Psycho is not my favorite.
I’m sure you know this, but Hitchock originally wanted no music in the shower scene. Herrmann, a cranky ol’ bastid, prevailed.
That is cruel and in violation of Hitchcock’s artistic philosophy. Hitch made Paycho in b&w specifically so the blood going down the drain would be gray and not red. Understatement has its own power. He would not have run the pic on the right, for the same reasons.
It’s OK, he got the FR account in the settlement.
My Mom took me with her to see it when I was five (she really, really wanted to see it). The scariest part was hearing my Mom scream and her covering my eyes.
He understood the pregnant pause and anticipation of horror.
Gotta go, mother is calling me!
Thanks for the ping. This is a truly fine movie. The remake is an abomination.
LOL. You’r kill’n me!
<The scariest movie for me in a long time (dont laugh) was the remake of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.
Not laughing here. I love the beginning of the film - the idea that something is not just coming, but that it is here already, and it’s bigger than us and it’s planning on eating up and cannot be reasoned with is frightening. The sound of the horn is also disconcerting. I like the effects and even though I’m generally ‘meh’ on Cruise, I like the film. It’s coming on cable this weekend. Have fun!
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