Societal Implications

Society has become complacent when hearing about horrific crimes against women.  When they see it in films they feel for the characters but think  “it is only a movie.” They do not think that anything like this could happen to them.  This is because people watch films to escape reality but usually films are based on real life.   

Because Women are seen as the weaker sex and the sexual object they are automatically stereotyped to be usless.  Marion fits under the typical beautiful, blonde, deperate woman.  Even though she is seen to have power at first glance, she actually does not, as she is paranoid, guilt ridden, and has impaired judgement in her belief that money would mean that she could fix everything.  She is this common stereotype that is quickly dying out as femle characters in films become more dominant. 

Hitcock took many risks within the film to try to satisfy the audience and take a step into modern film making.  Psycho was one of the first films to show a proper flushing toilet; and to have a female seen in just her bra and petti-coat.  As these were new concepts, there were both negative and positive implications.

Negative: To show that women as a sexual objects instead of human beings.  
                   Makes the male seem more powerful and dominant. 


Positive: To show women in a different way, not just the 'problem' charcters.  Makes the women seem like they have an actual role, to show they have importance - reward for the male. This could also be a negative relating back to the sex appeal.            
                  

 

"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it’s the latter, so I sign up." -Margaret Atwood

 

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