Napping Through Psycho

In the US, the Encore mystery channel is running the "Hitchcock Paramount/Universal" package -- which means biggies like Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window -- and smallies like Topaz and Torn Curtain. I've been sampling these films as they pop up.

I was "at rest" in an easy chair when I stumbled onto Psycho on Encore. I came in when Norman was cleaning up Marion's murder -- Herrmann's music while Norman scrubs down the tub, and later loads the car with a corpse -- is a weird part of the score I sort of forget about given all the other great music in it.

Anyway, very tired I was and eventually...asleep I fell.

Until I was awakened by a SCREECHING sound and awakened to see Arbogast getting it. I watched for awhile longer -- through the visit to the Sheriff and his wife at night -- and ..fell back asleep again.

Indeed, I fell asleep for a pretty long time. for it took ANOTHER SCREECHING sound to wake me back up again -- Lila almost getting it in the fruit cellar. I woozily hung on through the psychiatrist scene(HE didn't put me to sleep) and Norman in the cell/the swamp/the end.

Interesting to me: the screeching sounds did bring me out of a fairly deep sleep , and I was so groggy that it took awhile for my mind to "process" Arbogast getting murdered and later on a later wake-up, Norman revealed as Mother in the fruit cellar.

It all felt very much like...a dream. Or a nightmare. As if I hadn't woken up at all, and was DREAMING these attacks.

So..another way to view Psycho(asleep most of the time) AND...jeez I can finally fall asleep during Psycho. My how the times have changed....