Great piece, but I think this misses the boat a bit on Psycho. I read the film as a criticism of "pop-psychiatry", and the Freudian psychiatrist as a charicature of breezy psycho-analysis. The Bates Motel is described as "off the main road", a description that mirrors the marginalization of the mentally ill. The…

The camerawork in Children of Men—and any film that draws attention to the camera's existence without any narratological/thematic motivation—lends the medium a sense of theatricality. In other words, the director wants the viewer to be well aware that what he/she is viewing is a technological achievement—which, in my…