What ever happened to her. She was shown in one shot and thats it. One could probably ration that she was just visiting for one day, but ones mind can also lead to a more disturbing truth.
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Just wondering if anyone else ever wondered that.
I think she was just visiting Rusk for the day.
Rusk told Blaney that she was from Kent - the 'garden of England' when he introduced her from his window as Blaney was passing.
Hope she made it home!!!
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Also Rusk shows Blaney a photo of his mom when he takes him to his flat so he can "hide" from the police (just before he turns him in). Rusk asks Blaney if he remembers meeting her.
I think it is a reference to Psycho (Norman Bates and his mother), and that Hitchcock is half playing and half serious. Even monsters have mothers. Could a serial killer be a mama's boy? Could the relationship to the mother have something to do with the development of a killer?
It is one of many interesting topics in the movie. I at first thought the body in Rusk's bed would be his mom.
Its a bit of an "inside joke," of course, for Rusk to introduce his Mother to Blaney...seeing as "Frenzy" is Hitchcock's first(and only) film about a psychopathic killer after "Psycho."
Its all too sketchy to put too much weight on, but we should note:
On Rusk's mantle is but one photo: his mother. And pretty much: his mother TODAY. No photo of his father or other family. No other picture on the mantle AT ALL. So Mother is pretty central in Bob Rusk's life.
Moreover, he keeps quoting his Mother to Blaney:
"Beaulah...peel me a grape," that's what my mother used to say."
"Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in, that's what my mother used to say."
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So here's this grown man who keeps quoting his mother and keeps ONLY her photo on the mantle. And unlike the famous Mrs. Bates, she's quite alive(no, I don't think Rusk killed her.)
Also the "...peel me a grape" line sounds a bit too...intimate?
The truth of the matter is that while many psychopaths are "born that way"(something wrong with their brains), a psycho raised by a "strange" mother -- perhaps one who dominated his life and became the sexual being in his life at an early age...could find his own sexual perversities acclerated.
Let's just say that Bob Rusk's best friend is his mother.