Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock

I found this film quite intriguing and to be honest a bit cringey and sick, it was very interesting but made me feel very cautious. I made a few notes on the film and here they are:

• A lady called Marion Crane has decided to run away with $40,000 dollars, which she was suppose to put in the bank for her boss, whom s company is retail, Marion had been working for this man for over 10 years so there was no reason to not trust her.
• Marion decided to exchange her car, as she got pulled over when driving to have a nap and a police man came and checked if she was ok, giving her the impression she was being followed.
• Marion stops at Bates Motel- cabin 1 out of 12 to have a nights rest, Norman Bates the son's owner welcomes her and offers to have dinner together. However Norman's mother argues about bringing a stranger dinner but he does so anyway. They eat in the parler where the room is surrounded by stuffed birds.
• Norman explains that his hobby is to stuff creatures but mainly birds as they are "passive to begin with", he explains that its a cheap hobby you just need needles, thread, saw dust and the chemicals are the only pricey part, however he says a hobby is meant to pass time not fill it.
• Marion asks about what else he does, does he have friends or go out, he explains his mother is sick and he looks after her and that a "boy's best friend is his mother".
• Norman starts to ramble on about "everyone is in private traps, which clamps them in, no one can get out", he mentions he was born in a trap so he doesn't mind but he does?
• Norman's dad died a while ago and his mother had a lover, which made him feel replaced, he says, "a son is a poor substitute for a lover", Norman was raised by his mother alone, but her new lover influenced her to build the cabins, however he sadly died also.
• After Norman settled Marion in she goes for a shower, Norman spies through a peep hole to see what she is doing.
• Marion was attacked by a woman and stabbed repeatedly causing her death. Norman finds her and cleans the bathroom and wraps here in the broken shower curtain and puts her in her car boot and puts her belongings with her and drives the car into a lake.
• Marion's sister Lyla who was away for the weekend goes to see Sam, whom is Marion's boyfriend, to ask where she was and that she can help her get out of the mess she's in with stealing $40,000 dollars. A private investigator walks in asking questions about Marion who has been missing for a couple of days. Arbagas the investigator goes to the Bates Motel to see what 's going on and he wanted to talk to Norman's mother but Norman insisted that she was too ill to talk. Sadly he gets attacked and stabbed repeatedly by a woman and dies, leaving Sam and Lyla waiting for his call on some news about Marion.
• Sam and Lyla go to see the deputy Sheriff of the town in Alchambers, the deputy Sheriff's wife explains that Norman's mother has been dead for 10 years, she helped Norman pick out the dress she was buried in, she was buried with her lover. However she apparently poisoned him for being married and they were both found dead in bed together.
• Norman knows that now Marion is dead causing the Investigator to come and now he's dead someone else will come looking, so he convinces his mother to hide in the fruit cellar.
• Sam and Lyla go to bates Motel pretending to be married couple to get some answers, Sam distracts Bates as Lyla goes to look around the house as they only found a piece of torn up paper with the figures $40,000 dollars on so they know Marion was there.
• Norman knocks Sam out as he realises where is Lyla who sam said was taking a nap doesn't believe him. Lyla finds an old woman in the fruit cellar however it is the skeleton of Norman's mother and that a woman who comes in to kill Lyla is Norman dressed as his mother! Sam stops him and they are both safe, Norman is taken in by the police and questioned.
• They come to the conclusion that Norman's brain is half him and half his mother, that Norman killed his mother and poisoned her lover and that he was dangerously disturbed since his father died. His mother was clingy and because the lover replaced him so he felt, he killed them, it pushed him over board, he stole her corpse and the real coffin has no body it in, he has 2 personalities, he wanted her there with him.
• The man at the police department explains that if Norman had a strong attraction for a woman like he did with Marion, the mother side of him would go wild, it would make the mother side want to kill her.
• There's an illusion of his mother being alive, hence him dressing like her and using her voice, but now he believes the battle is over and the dominant personality won.
• The last thing you hear from Norman's mind is his mother saying, " I'll show them what I am".
• Which makes me think is the mother letting her son take the blame for everything!?