Partly because you know you'll soon be confronting those eyes, that fly, the car. Try to turn away after the climax during Simon Oakland's long explanation. Everything falls into place so perfectly that even the things that one may argue are below the smart standard of the film, are needed, the film without every frame is not quite the film. No amount of planning can produce it or re-produce it - otherwise how do you explain the Gus Van Sant version - so, the only possible explanation is an accident, a miraculous film accident and those do happen. The anticipation, underlined by Herrmann's strings, creates a sort of craving for the moment to arrive. The fact that the key scenes have become iconic film moments: copied, imitated, emulated and parodied, have not diminished its impact, not really. The score propels us into the moment before the moment arrives provoking the sort of anticipation that verges on the unbearable. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam. Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. Robert Bloch wrote the original work, Joseph Stefano adapted it into a tight screenplay but it was Alfred Hitchcock with the extraordinary complicity of Bernard Herrmann who transformed this lurid tale into a classic, horror masterpiece. A Phoenix secretary embezzles 40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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