Psycho Image Analysis 3

 

This is a shot after the infamous shower scene. The scene is very effective to the audience and adds more interest to the film. The scene uses collision cutting because the murder is shot with a very fast sequence of shots but at the end you get a slow, lengthy shot of the rotation away from Marion’s eye. This connotes how the life has been taken from her and also links with the way the blood gets washed down the plughole. The blood being drained shows us her life being washed away.

The use of camera angles in this shot is effective because it connotes how hopeless Marion’s body is as she lays on the bathroom floor. You see no gore in this shot but you feel sympathetic to Marion as you know the pain she went through to die.