the light from outside symbolizes good, optimism, and happiness. However, with this new addition of light, we can now see more dreary details of the room, including a cheap piece of pottery, a beaten up bureau, and rather ugly walls. Now it seems the hope shown by the daylight will be subdued by the ugliness and gloom that it reveals (as it obviously does at the Bates Hotel while Marion is on her way to see Sam). Also, by stopping the music in an unexpected fashion when the blind is opened, Hitchcock seems to suggest that everything will not be OK in the end and that the daylight does not represent good fortune. The opening sequence ends as Marion exits for work. The music fades away and the shot dissolves into the Lowrey Real Estate office. Psycho opens its first sequence in medias res, bringing us into the middle of a complicated love affair to serve as the foundation of the film. The exposition shows us a couple facing the complications of marriage and implies we will be taken further into this subject in order to reveal the plot in its entirety. Hitchcock successfully uses the credits, music, and lighting as well as long, medium, and close-up shots to create a stable and interesting foundation on which to build . It is Hitchcocks brilliant use of cinematic effects that makes Psycho one of the best horror films ever made. Psycho is and will forever be a cult classic in the horror genre still as frightening today as the day it was released....
