Thornhill is mistaken to George Kaplan and brought to Leonard Townsend. As the movie proceeds, Thornhill attempts to find the secret of Townsend’s interest in Kaplan. Then, he goes out of the city to look for Kaplan in order to extricate the murder he accused of committing. A young, beautiful, blond girl, Eve, helps him to escape from police. The two fall in love without Thornhill’s knowledge that Eve is Townsend’s agent and seduces him to get into Townsend’s trap.
A Brief Psychoanalytic Discussion of Psycho Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, as the title itself suggests, is a widely known psychological movie. It means that the conflicts and clashes of the movie have causes which are related in one way or another to the psychic state of the characters’ minds. To begin the discussion of such motives, first I would provide you with a brief account of the plot of the movie. Marion wants to marry her boyfriend, Sam, but first they must escape from his alimony debt. The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon.
In Jack’s case he first seems paranoid when Wendy hears him screaming and comes to his aid only to find that he had a nightmare about killing his family. In Macbeth you can first tell that he is paranoid when he is in his chambers pacing, scared that he will lose his crown. Although Macbeth turns to murder a lot quicker than Jack, they both resort to murder in the end. With Macbeth murdering King Duncan and Jack trying to kill his family, it is clear that they both are mentally unstable. Another strong connection between the two, are the hallucinations that they suffer.
For example, in the film Sunset Blvd, you see how Hollywood can turn a famous person crazy. By this it shows the illusion of someone who used to be in spot light has instantly faded away by time. An example, is when Norma at the end of the film believes she is shooting a scene at her home, but in reality she is being question for the murder of Joe. This really demonstrates how crazy Norma has become within time, and what she’ll do just to her the spot light once again. The illusion of the film The Day of the Locust really show the dishonesty of what a person will do to get what they want.
Vertigo, 1958, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 128 mins. From the initial outset of spirals and swirls foreboding the twists and turns to come, Hitchcock’s compelling mystery-thriller Vertigo unceasingly captures the audience’s attention positioning one directly behind the male protagonist’s eyes. We follow Scotty, who due to his condition of Vertigo becomes helpless when an old friend requests him to shadow his believed-to-be possessed wife, Madeline, who commits suicide before his eyes. Scotty’s melancholia and alarming fixation with Madeline becomes evident when he later meets Judy who holds an uncanny resemblance to his late affection.
Hitchcock understood this desire and re-defined how America watched movies. (Thomson, 2009 p. 14) From the illicit opening scene in the seedy hotel room between Marian Crane and Sam Loomis, there is already a sense of disorder. After Marian crosses the line from illicit to illegal by stealing $40,000 from her employer and fleeing Arizona by driving to Sam, she is assailed by guilt and paranoia. Marian’s theft is a crime of opportunity born of desperation. The $40,000 was conveniently left in her care to be banked, her sister is away from home for the weekend, she is already upset, and disturbed that her lover’s dismal financial state has kept him from being able to openly declare their relationship.
This can be seen through the lighting of Norman’s face, half-light, half dark, and the dialogue. “It's not like my mother is a maniac... We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?” These techniques have been cleverly assembled by Hitchcock to subtly hint at the idea of madness and help us to get to know Norman, but is not yet prepared to reveal the extent of Norman’s madness due to Psycho being a horror film. The complex relationship helps us understand Norman as a character and the idea of madness in the fruit cellar scene. The director reveals the situation when Lila, Marion’s sister, goes down to the fruit cellar to hide from the murderer and finds Mother’s corpse.
The lady with the dog soon becomes his next conquest. Anna and and Gurov quickly become friends and then lovers. Afterwards, Anna considers herself a fallen woman, and with shame assumes that Gurov will never respect her again. Gurov finds himself bored by her concerns. The affair continues, but ends abruptly when Anna is summoned back home by her husband.
Bodies are stabbed, sliced in half, decapitated or otherwise mutilated. Many people view the violence in this film as disturbing or desensitizing. While I certainly agree that the violence in action and horror movies with weak plots and character development is disturbing, desensitizing and unnecessarily overt, violence serves an important purpose as a storytelling tool in Kill Bill. The violence that the Bride endures at the hands of her colleagues at the wedding allows us to establish a connection with her as the good guy of the story and identify Bill and the rest of the Deadly Vipers as the bad guys. The hacking and slashing that the Bride doles out to her enemies functions as a cathartic experience for both her and the audience.
Maxim was staying at the same hotel as they were when she catches his eye and they end up having lunch together. After knowing her for only a few weeks, Maxim proposes marriage. She accepts and he takes her back to his ancestral estate of Manderley. The new Mrs. de Winter begins hearing about Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, who drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year. Soon thereafter she feels like she will never truly be accepted Rebecca's devoted housekeeper, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, is still in charge of Manderley, and she frightens and intimidates her new mistress.