[cinema class]Psycho

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Hello everyone today we will discuss the movie psycho. The director makes use of the camera to show people what he wants them to think. This is show when the camera zooms into the money that was stolen. Even though the money had no significance, other than to kick off the plot, it made people think that the money was the main source of the drama, and what everyone was after. Secondly he used the used the camera when he zoomed in on the girl's abdomen when the knife had stricken her. In our mind he put in the image of the girl who has been stabbed repeatedly. Even though that never was shown. In sense that made the movie more psychological and goes with the main villain who is a psycho. The director also manipulates the people’s sense of time such as a lot of time has passed in short of amount of time. This is seen mostly when the girl drives to the psycho's lodge. It was supposed to be a day or two drive but is shown in a span of five minutes. This done with the use of lights that transition rather quickly from light to dark which indicates the passage of time. When time is slow the lights stay the same also the scene stays the same for that one scene were as when time is passed rapidly the scenery changes rather quickly. One scene that repeats a significance amount of times is when the psycho stabs his victim. It develops the definition the psycho is in fact a psycho because he rapidly stabs innocent people. It makes people anticipate that whoever the psycho encounter, they will be stabbed to death which doesn’t happen in the end even though everyone thought it will. The film genre I would say is psychological horror and it does fulfill the psychological part with the analysis of the main character and the story would be considered scary even though the movie never really scared me.