Once upon a time, after announcing a retirement from filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh continued pursuing the medium of cinema in a different, albeit still creative form: he spliced together a heady fan edit that wedded Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s fascinating but controversial shot-for-shot remake.
By editing the two films together in the way that he does, Soderbergh creates a surrealistic movie of doppelgängers that not only compares the two versions back-to-back but also examines what makes Hitch’s version undoubtedly superior.
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