Would you go into the first motel you see when it is raining on an empty road?

We start the movie with Marion Crane and she really makes a lot of bad decisions…

But honestly, I support bad decisions in these kinds of movies because this is the point, right? If they made good decisions, I would not go into Bates Motel, I would drive away as far as I can.

Anyway, after we enter Bates Motel, we meet our main character Norman Bates. He is a polite and quiet man, maybe a little too polite for a man…

The conversation scene between Marion and Norman was very uncomfortable and it affected me a lot.

And yes, Norman is a person with mommy issues, we already understand this from his connection with his mother. This is not just love or attachment to his mother, it is directly identity melting. Maybe this is what they mean when they say “too much of everything is bad.”

And the thing that affected me the most in the movie is how it tells there is a problem slowly without shouting it. I will not go deep into psychology (because this is not a therapy session) but I am sure if Norman had therapy, the movie would be 20 minutes.

By the way, I want to give a small but disturbing detail: Norman Bates is not completely fictional. He is a little inspired by Ed Gein. If you don’t know him, I do not recommend searching at 3 AM (tested and approved).

What you watch is fiction but your brain says: “this feels too real.” And I think this is the most disturbing type of horror.

I do not think Norman is just a bad guy. I think he is a person who needed treatment but it was too late.

“How does a person become like this?”

I am still thinking.

Thanks.