Is it me or Hitchcock movies are fairy tales, they are poetic they move with a certain grace...
Psycho wasn't but what about VERTIGO
Notorious and vertigo are the most classic example of an Hitchcock movie... They are romantic but it's a certain Hitchcock romance where the male character has to learn to trust her female counterpart and the female counterpart has to suffer through the whole movie to gain the trust of the male... There is always a "suspense" which only is a background and never the whole plot.Great directors never let their movies limited by a plot... This movie was made in 1946 but look how cleverly Hitchcock avoid the obligatory happy ending by ending the movie with Sebastian going back in the house to face his Nazi cohorts.
I gotta admit REAR WINDOW is my favorite Hitchcock because it starts my favorite actor JAMES STEWART and then says what Hitchcock thinks about cinema
See REAR WINDOW if you wanna know the meaning of cinema which is peeping into people's private lives WE ALL ARE PEEPING TOMS