This scene from PSYCHO shows Norman Bates spying on Marion Crane getting in the shower. Straight away from this we can say that Norman is shown to enjoy the act of voyeurism. Alfred Hitchcock was known for enjoying this sort of thing, from this we could say that because he added his personal obsessions to his work he supports the Andrew Sarris’s Auteur Theory (established in his essay “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962”). We can also say that that this is a representation of Laura Mulvey’s Gaze Theory ( From her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” 1975) that appeals to the male-dominated cultural dominant ideology.
A bright light from
the peephole is lighting up Norman’s face but the rest of his body is in a low key lighting. Shadows can signify
different things with dark being evil and light being good. From this we could
say this is a connotation of his
split personality disorder (schizophrenia).
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