The low-key lighting in this scene
makes Norman's face very shadowy and contrasts the light coming through the
peep hole into Marion's room. The darkness on his face connotes his evil side
and the light coming from Marion's room shows that she is not like that and the
white light connotes purity and innocence.
Norman's head is more or less all hidden because of he low-key lighting,
but the light from Marion's room reveals who he is, this foreshadows the ending
of the film since after he kills Marion, he is revealed as a murderer and
caught. The picture on the wall that
Norman takes down to reveal the peep hole is called "Rape of
Lucretia" which indicates how Norman is taking away Marion's dignity by
watching her without her knowing. This
also shows the audience
that Norman is a voyeur which Laura Mulvey talks about in her essay “Visual
Pleasure and Narrative”. This voyeurism makes Norman seem more perverse
and creepy. Alfred Hitchcock was also a
bit of a voyeur in real life, especially to blonde women. This obsession with blonde women is one of
the features Alfred Hitchcock adds with his auteur style.
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