#头条创作挑战赛#
If I want to choose the movie that is the least suitable for spoilers, I will definitely vote for "Psycho" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. If you haven't seen this film yet, then the following text can be read without bothering, because it involves spoilers.
Watching this film, the audience will always be under the control of the director. In Hitchcock's interview with Truffaut, Hitchcock said, "I'm directing the audience," and "you could even say I'm playing with them, like a musical instrument." ”
Like "Ecstasy", the first 1/3 of the plot of the "Psycho" movie is basically the shaping and foreshadowing of some characters and fate, which looks like an ordinary movie. As far as the audience is concerned, watching the opening will feel that it is a suspenseful thriller story caused by a cheating romance, but the next scene becomes a story of absconding with money, and another turn seems to presuppose a road romance...
However, these signals are all subconscious illusions created by the film for the audience. The director's real intention is to elicit a real thriller plot and suspense story. And the most exciting part of the movie is also the beginning of the progress of the film to 1/3, and then let the audience follow the director's lens step by step, deeply empathize with the characters in the film, and even incarnate as the protagonist in the heart in some weird moments, speculating about the next development of events from the perspective of the protagonist.
Hitchcock uses a lot of reverse hints in this film, so that the seemingly frightening and tense picture does not mean the dangerous situation of the protagonist, and the seemingly warm and ambiguous scene lurks a huge crisis.
Take a series of tense and frightened behaviors of the "heroine" who absconded with money as an example. After watching the film, I know that she has borne great psychological pressure and guilt because of occasional greedy actions. For example, before entering the reception room, the "female protagonist" and the male protagonist had a series of verbal interactions in the motel, the "female protagonist" is a relatively relaxed and trusting mentality, and the male protagonist is also gentle and courteous, but the result is shocking.
In many Hitchcock films, the real horror is not bloody violent scenes, but the amplification of the dark side of human nature: for example, ordinary people like the "heroine" will burden themselves with great burdens because of occasional evil deeds, but the real devil will not feel uneasy in conscience when he commits murder for a long time; It is clear that he looks gentle and courteous, but the humble and lovable innkeeper hides another personality; Someone cleans up the crime scene unhurriedly and orderly at the crime scene.
In addition, in addition to the expression of film art such as the plot setting, lens shooting, aesthetic style, and scene scheduling of master director Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, who plays the male protagonist Norman Bates, is also very attractive.
In the film, Norman's interpretation and transformation of all words, actions, demeanor, and expressions are simply supernatural, between angels and demons, he deduces different degrees of excessive personality, and every detail is convincing, and even produces irrepressible love and sympathy.
Of course, this film is not perfect, mainly in the ending part of a psychiatrist chattering and full of greasy pathological analysis, which not only dilutes the suspenseful atmosphere and plot tension of the entire film, but also destroys the compact structure and aesthetic style of the film, which looks a little painted.