Psycho Response by Esteban Arturo

Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho made it's mark in the film making industry through its successful use of montage and motion pictures. As the film first begins to develop, it seems to take a mystery's film usual course of action: An audience is caught between the main characters and their deep moments of guilt. The film continues to develop… tension rises through the dialogue and body language expressed between the characters…

and then BOOM. 

Hitchcock makes a phenomenal move as he recreates the shower scene through a series of montaged images that elapse over a period of time, undoubtedly catching the viewers in a sensational moment of awe and stricken by fear and shock. 

Throughout t the shower scene, Hitchcock is able to create fear through his focus nil objects that make the scene eerie: the knife, and the water running. He also contrasts the victims face as she reacts to her enemy. Prior to her enemy entering the bathroom, he focuses on the smile in her face, and takes that and uses it to contrast the painful look in her face as she is being killed. Solely focusing on the face, rather than on the entire scene as a whole, rises empathy within the audience. The action of the murdered is furthered developed through the short cuts between each of the shots and the background sounds which do not correlate with the order of the pictured featured at that moment. 

Hitchcock utilizes this same effect throughout each of the murder scenes in the film, which ultimately lead to the success of the movie overall.