This scene is from the very beginning of “Psycho” in which
the title gets distorted. This is done for the reason that the villain Norman
Bates is schizophrenic between his own persona and “mother” and this image
hints at it if you carefully re-watch the film opening credits. This
schizophrenic personality refers to Ed Gein, who at the time was a killer who
took body parts and dug up corpses and he too was apparently forced to do the
crimes because by the voice of his mother told him so furthermore he liked to
dress up as a woman. This shows that Hitchcock captures the zeitgeist with the
character of Norman Bates referencing Ed Gein in “Psycho.”
Also the fact that the title seems to be slashed at hint
also toward the film that it one of the first films to have a psychopathic
villain and that the weapon he uses will be a knife. The parallel music is similar
to the shower scene in the movie setting a uneasy tone for the rest of the
movie.
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