A review by gudgercollege
The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson

3.0

Very disappointing. I don't disagree that the first half of the film is masterfully setting up a resolution that falters in the second half's obsession with technical perfection over plausible storytelling, but there's so much Freudian shit in here, so many ideas that are overstated, and a completely unnecessary and pointless final chapter that it really brings the book down. I'll bet somewhere out there someone has written a better version of this book, and I hope I find it.