Alfred Hitchcock uses fast paced cuts in the stabbing of the shower scene to create excitement and tension and hide nudity and to also hide the fact of the knife not actually entering the body. In this scene Marion, the main character, enjoys her shower so much because she feels like she is washing away the sins that she has committed earlier in the film. When she dies the scene cuts to the water and blood getting washed down the plughole; this is then juxtaposed by a long slow shot of Marion's eye. This is done to represent her life fading away.
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