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"How did Hitchcock create sustain and sustain it in Psycho?"
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PSYCHO "How did Hitchcock create sustain and sustain it in Psycho?" Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock, was shocking for its time. Made in the 1960's when film censorship was very tight to today's standards, Hitchcock pushed the limits of what could be shown and did with psycho things that had never been done before. The cinematic art, symbolism and sub-conscious images in this film were brilliant for the time and still are now. Realised for this, psycho has been copied in many ways and the things that made it great have become very clichéd. From the very first scene in psycho, it is clear that the viewer will be sucked into the world of Marion Crane and Norman Bates. The opening shot is an aerial shot from the sky, pausing momentarily and seeming to pick a window at random, suggesting these were randomly chosen people, normal people like you and I, Hitchcock includes...
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