Victim In Alfred Hitchcock's Film Psycho
Hitchcock’s film Psycho is a ruthless exposition of American Puritanism and exaggerated Mom-ism. Norman (Anthony Perkins) the victim and the victimiser is an overprotected child alienated of affection and succumbs to madness. He feels lonely when his widowed mother marries a hotel man from the East. A mamma’s boy, Norman was under the protective cocoon of mother’s care, feels dejected and kills both Mrs. Bates and his step father. Norman later kills Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) disguised as Mrs.Bates and blames his sick mother. At last Norman is in a mental asylum and a complete annihilation of Norman’s personality forever swallowed up in his own death-in-life with Mother the only victor and the victimiser finally turns victim. Hithcock