Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock · 1960 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Phoenix secretary takes forty thousand dollars from her employer, drives out of town, and is forced off the highway by rain at a roadside motel. The young man who runs it makes her a sandwich and talks about his taxidermy, and about his mother up at the house. A demolition of where a film's sympathy is safe to sit.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein · 1925 CE · Film
• ↓ Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho · 2019 CE · Film — influenced by this

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