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Do spoilers ruin your life?
Yes! They make me die the small death.
No. Posting on an Internet forum is more important to me.
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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
The only times spoilers matter is if they "spoil" something integral to what the director was intending, like in Psycho.

For instance, everybody probably knows that Rosebud was a loving sled in Citizen Kane but that knowledge takes nothing away from the movie.

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

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Honestly the shower scene is a much more damning spoiler than the actual last minute reveal. With the latter you know Norman's a crazy dude, which makes the extended sequence of him cleaning up the crime scene all the better.

I was talking about both, actually. The shower scene is a shock because the entire film so far has been setting up Janet Leigh as the main character. The mother scene reveals how hosed up Norman really is.

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