So, I watched the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. Being grown up in a village I got access to Hollywood movies only after coming to Kathmandu for high school (I rarely missed any Nepalese movie though when I was in last grades of school). Its been 6 years and for the last 1 year I’ve been watching all the classics and critically acclaimed movies.( Btw, I actually bought the DVD, not rented, and for full NRS. 200).
So Pshycho, I found the movie just like any other drama movie until Marion reaches Norman’s motel.I loved their conversation during the dinner, the way Norman talks sometimes quite romantic and very angry. And then it blew me up with the famous shower scene. This must be one of the very rare scenes on any film that actually scared me. I saw the same scene at least 5 times and I want to see it again and again.
But, besides the shower scene I didn’t see anything special when I first saw the move. It starts from an ordinary crime drama to a incredible gory murder scene and then an awesome psychological story but then I’ve seen that all the time. And then I wondered how can a movie that is called masterpiece all over the world looks just another Psycho thriller to me? As I said I’d been watching all the highly rated classics all the time, I find some of them just average. I never appreciated these movies like RGV appreciates Pshycho except for few movies like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, reservoir dogs. I mean of course I enjoy these movie but I just don’t find them as incredible as others do. Only after I read that article by RGV on psycho, then realized the reason. The reason I do not find these movies as incredible as others find is that there have been made hundreds of clones of these movies. I have definitely seen more than 5 other movies on the same story as psycho and with equally brilliant techniques. Its simple, when you’re happy about the present you forget the history.
I watched Psycho once again after reading RGV’s article on the movie. Now I realize why Hitchcock is talked about so much and then I agreed pshycho is one of the best movies I’d ever seen.
