They are partially undressed, having apparently had sex though they are not married and Marion is on her lunch "hour." Later, along with Norman (Tony Perkins), we watch Marion undress through a peephole.
Similarly, Psycho begins with the camera moving toward a hotel-room window, through which the audience is introduced to Marion (Janet Leigh) and her divorced boyfriend. In fact, shortly before asking this, Thorwald turns to face the camera directly for the first time - at this point, audiences often gasp. Jeffries (played by James Stewart) has been staring across the courtyard at him for most of the film, Lars Thorwald (played by Raymond Burr) confronts Jeffries by saying, "What do you want of me?" Burr might as well have been addressing the audience. Additionally, Hitchcock often dealt with matters that he felt were sexually perverse or kinky, and many of his films aimed to subvert the restrictive Hollywood Production Code.įurther blurring the moral distinction between the innocent and the guilty, occasionally making this indictment inescapably clear to viewers one and all, Hitchcock also makes voyeurs of his "respectable" audience. Psychoanalytical film theorists such as Slavoj Žižek ( The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) have noticed how Hitchcock often applied Freudian concepts to his psychological thrillers, as in Rebecca, Spellbound, Vertigo, Psycho, and Marnie. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they applied their auteur theory, which stresses the artistic authority of the director in the film-making process. In the late 1950s the French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote his films as artistic works. Until the later part of his career, Hitchcock was far more popular with film audiences than with film critics, especially the elite British and American critics. They often portray innocent people caught up in circumstances beyond their control or understanding. Hitchcock's films draw heavily on both fear and fantasy, and are known for their witticisms.
Alfred Hitchcock', (1899 – 1980) was an English film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
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