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<i>at the same time.</i> 632 00:31:30,389 --> 00:31:32,927 <i>It's a mirror image, you know, it goes both ways.</i> 633 00:31:32,933 --> 00:31:34,799 We're looking into the eyes of death 634 00:31:34,976 --> 00:31:37,218 and the eyes of death are looking at us. 635 00:31:37,396 --> 00:31:40,730 And it's inclusive and horrifying. 636 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:43,816 The laughing and the tears.. 637 00:31:43,819 --> 00:31:46,186 ...and the cruel eyes studying you. 638 00:31:46,363 --> 00:31:47,570 My mother, there? 639 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,525 <i>God is studying you, because there are a number of</i> 640 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:55,069 you know, God point-of-view shots in "Psycho" 641 00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:57,496 just as there are in "The Birds." 642 00:31:57,666 --> 00:32:00,579 <i>Hitchcock's God is cruel and arbitrary</i> 643 00:32:00,585 --> 00:32:03,453 <i>a bit like some kind of bird of prey or raptor</i> 644 00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:06,543 <i>which is, uh, gazing down rather coldly and disinterestedly</i> 645 00:32:06,550 --> 00:32:08,382 <i>on its human subjects.</i> 646 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:13,297 <i>In the shower sequence, the violence is directed</i> 647 00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:16,549 <i>and that knife is coming towards us</i> 648 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,894 so we're being punished for being the voyeurs. 649 00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:22,180 There are consequences to watching 650 00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:24,022 and being watched. 651 00:32:24,192 --> 00:32:25,979 <i>In the character of James Stewart</i> 652 00:32:26,194 --> 00:32:29,562 <i>if we identify with him in "Rear Window"</i> 653 00:32:29,739 --> 00:32:32,948 <i>has a very literal, great fall at the end of it</i> 654 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:35,238 <i>where he breaks the other leg</i> 655 00:32:35,245 --> 00:32:39,285 meaning another six, eight months of pain and itchiness 656 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:41,582 and not being able to screw Grace Kelly. 657 00:32:41,751 --> 00:32:45,495 All of those things are pertinent to Hitchcock. 658 00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:48,039 <i>I'll bet you nine people out of ten..</i> 659 00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:53,177 <i>...if they see something across</i> 660 00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:56,969 <i>like a woman undressing and going to bed</i> 661 00:32:57,142 --> 00:33:00,010 <i>or even sometimes a man puttering around</i> 662 00:33:00,187 --> 00:33:02,224 <i>his room doing nothing..</i> 663 00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:07,228 <i>...nine people out of ten will stay and look.</i> 664 00:33:09,613 --> 00:33:11,445 <i>They won't turn away and say</i> 665 00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,235 <i>"It's none of my business"</i> 666 00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:15,741 <i>and pull down their own curtain.</i> 667 00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:17,076 <i>They won't do it.</i> 668 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,827 <i>In the beginning in the movie</i> 669 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:24,200 <i>you're flying into a window with the blinds closed</i> 670 00:33:24,377 --> 00:33:27,245 <i>so you're starting off as a voyeur.</i> 671 00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:29,414 <i>And if you think about it, if the movie's opening</i> 672 00:33:29,591 --> 00:33:31,423 <i>from the point of view of a fly</i> 673 00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:32,712 it changes the whole context 674 00:33:32,886 --> 00:33:34,297 of what the meaning of the movie is. 675 00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:36,758 <i>I'm not even going to swat that fly.</i> 676 00:33:36,932 --> 00:33:40,141 <i>I hope they are watching. They'll see.</i> 677 00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:43,769 <i>They'll see and they'll know and they'll say</i> 678 00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:47,353 <i>"Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly."</i> 679 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:50,064 <i>I think the voyeurism actually has a payoff</i> 680 00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:51,899 <i>in the shower scene.</i> 681 00:33:51,905 --> 00:33:55,319 It's Hitchcock's way of setting the bomb under the table 682 00:33:55,325 --> 00:33:57,658 which is something he liked to do to create dramatic irony. 683 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:45,080 Hello? 684 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,416 I think at this point, we start to wonder 685 00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:49,188 what's going on in his head and what's gonna happen 686 00:34:49,212 --> 00:34:51,829 <i>because of this look on his face.</i> 687 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,127 This is so interesting, as an actor, what is he playing. 688 00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:57,385 He's playing, "Oh, God, don't let my mother kill this girl." 689 00:34:57,387 --> 00:35:01,347 <i>Norman Bates is presented in all these little</i> 690 00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:04,805 <i>you know, encapsulated moments throughout the film</i> 691 00:35:04,978 --> 00:35:07,058 <i>and in much the same way that the murder is presented</i> 692 00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:10,064 <i>in encapsulated moments of image