Psycho

I watched Psycho, which started at 11pm last night, and i was in awe about how amazing the film actually was! I was actually terrified when i finished watching it about 12:50am. It was just outstanding and i really enjoyed it. The suspense of the music by Bernard Hermann really made the movie for me. It was dramatic and suspenseful, and really made the movie. Alfred Hitchcock has really done some amazing work creating Psycho and i now understand why this film is voted one of the BEST Thrillers ever made.

The Shower Scene "runs 3 minutes and includes 50 cuts." Most of the shots are extreme close-ups, except for medium shots in the shower directly before and directly after the murder. The combination of the close shots with the short duration between cuts makes the sequence feel longer, more subjective, more uncontrolled, and more violent than would the images if they presented alone or in a wider angle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)#Production)

Moreover, the use of graphic match is effective in providing a graphic continuity. The plug whole and the woman's eye was the graphic match.

I also watched a bit of Rear Window, but began to grow bored as it took a while to get into the situation. I also tried to watch The Birds, it was okay, but then it got silly with the birds attacking. I've noticed that films made by Hitchcock, tend to, at the beginning, be very long, before actually getting into the plot. This is to create suspense, i think, and so that the audience understand the characters and get enough information to understand the situation.