Alfred Hitchcock Psycho

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"Psycho" is a black-and-white psychological thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, traditionally ranked among the heights of Hitchcock's creativity and a genre as a whole. It was quite difficult for me to choose only one element of this film for analysis since the sound effects and directing solutions of the film are multifaceted, with a deep sense that are not immediately understandable from the first attempt. I watched this film several times before many elements started to make sense, thus the film becomes even more thrilling.
One element interested me most in this film, especially considering that I also watched the movie "The Birds" by Hitchcock – the motif of birds passing through the entire movie.
At the beginning of the film it showed a city
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