In order to intensify the audience's involvement as voyeurs and to invoke a stronger sense of realism in their witnessing events, it is said that Hitchcock insisted on the use of 50-millimeter lenses through the shooting of the entire movie. ... Graphic editing of the drainage hole to Marion's large, soulless, unblinking eye again brings forth a sense of watching, this time, from the dead. ...

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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho released in 1960 was one of the films that shocked the audience in a way that was never done before. Hitchcock shocked the audience by showing them nudity, the amount of money that was involved on screen and Norman Bates as a villain. The writer counts Psycho as a classic f...

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