July 7, 2020
George Tolles:
Hitch’s literal play on eye.
The eye is the ultimate goal for any act of violation.
But the eye is also linked with repression it threatens the violator
The eye is the vehicle of reassurance
The eye and mouth and vagina; attributes of opening
Punishment inflected on the eye mans severing one’s ties with the world (Oedipal0 and reduces one’s consciousness
torture of the eye
Obsessive significance of the eye as metaphor rather than object
Eye asserts the value and power through migration towards other objects.
The eye undergoes repeated metamorphoses
The eye represents identity at fullest conceentration and maximum vulnerability
(Above: George Tolles)
Psycho:
Norman’s eye peering thru the peephole at Marion
Marion’s blood swirling down the shower drain that dissolves to her dead eye (in close up)
Then the camera turns and tracks away from in order to gaze at the money that the dead eye is seeing
Mother’s empty eye sockets at the climax
