ENGB70H3 Lecture : March28Lec.docx
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Hitchcock spends a lot of time in the rooms of the haunted house. He knows the essence of suspense is to suspend you. At the mercy of his cutting and his direction, he chooses what to show and what not to show. Mrs. bates is the director of norman bates directing him from the grave: hitchcock aware of the visual line (picture of him in director"s chair with mrs. The tragedy is that the public accepts modernity without being awed by it. Hitchcock can make you terrified of a lamb (he gives the object powers: making the ordinary sacred, he restores the sacred and the sinister to object, for hitchcock modernity has standardized reality. Psycho resets modern horror: he put the horror into the ordinary, bates is the boy next door. Craziness is a joke in this movie: mother"s not quite herself tonight.
