Hitchcock

I finally had the chance to watch Hitchcock today. He was a bit before my era, however, i do remember wathing The Birds and Psycho as a young teen and had fond memories of them. I'm sure I watched a few other Hitchcock movies and remember looking out for his cameo's that appeared in all of his movies. I'm not a fan of over the top horror films, however, suspense - thrillers ar realistic enough to be enjoyable.

The biggest warning I can give to anyone considering this film is that this is not a biography on Hitchcock, moreso a biography on the making of Psycho. If you haven't seen Psycho and are considering watching this, I strongly recommend watching Psycho first. Fortunately I had enough of a recollection of it for the movie to make sense to me. I was a little nervous in the first scene when it looked as though Hitchcock was in his twilight, expecting a lot of time travel but that wasn't the case here and the movie targeted the year or so it took to make Hitchcock..

Nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and the window into the lengths that Hitchcock took to make his masterpiece and the obsessive compulsive extremes he went to to ensure all parts of his movies were exactly what he wanted.. Hopkins played a great Hitchcock and it was good to have an insight into the 50's and 60's and watch the little nuances associated with the period. There was an underlying love story thrown in and the script was quite impressive and had very good use of the english language.

 This movie certainly has my recommendations. Go on, Enjoy!