Psycho & the gaze: eyes, vision, 2

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mirrors

Point of view looking:
shot-countershot-reaction technique

Lila approaches the house: traveling point-of-view shooting
Lila and Norman's book

Hitchcock used a 100mm lens to shoot Norman's book, the only shots in the film not done with a 50mm lens. The 100mm lens was thought to most closely approximate human vision.

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see also mirrors in Psycho
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