In this scene from Psycho is where we see Norman spying on Marion. The scene gives the films a voyeuristic perspective, a theme often used in Hitchcock’s films and you could say it is part of his Auteur influence. This also fits with Laura Mulvey’s ‘Male Gaze Theory’, which makes us feel uncomfortable because we're forced to be voyeurs (or, at least, scopophiles) too. This scene also gives the audience an insight into Norman’s personality and is the first time we fully realise he is a little strange. This is because his character is based on Ed Gein, a notorious serial killer at the time so the context of the film would have scared the audience even more as it was recent event, his crimes were very brutal and similar to the ones which Norman commits in ‘Psycho ‘for example the killing of women. The real the real life Ed Gein was arrested in in 1958 the book ‘Psycho’ was published in the 1959 and the film came out in 1960. Low key lighting is also used to give the scene more of a creepy feel and the fact that the this part of the film is set at night makes the audience for more scared and ‘trapped’ by the darkness, this is an example of pathetic fallacy.
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