A well-known film that feminism can be interpreted through is
the famous work of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Hitchcock portrayed the main female lead Marion, as being independent,
dominant and in control of her own life as she has a job, is not married (but
in love). He still
had to base his film around the societal changes and the people within it: feminists,
sexist males and traditionalists.
Hitchcock, being a traditionalist himself, still kept the weak,
vunerable female stereotype as it was his plan to kill her off after the first
30 minutes of the film to please the audience and to keep the horror theme
alive. But, mainly to show her courageous move of stealing her bosses money required
a punishment ,as it was seen as an ‘unwomanly’ act.
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