Encounter 5 - The Last Streets

With Psyco (1960) Hitchcock has a new interpretative code to illustrate: after the double, sexuality, guilt complex and innocence in a trap comes the removal of the maternal figure, which disorients and upsets profound equilibriums; the pact of complicity with the spectator (identification with the hero) is broken to the advantage of pure fear. The Birds (1963) is his last masterpiece, crazy and visionary: a film based on unpredictability, on the precariousness of human relationships, on the absurdity and non-sense of life.