This shot is still part of the shower scene, and is the shot
after when the camera pans to the bathtubs plughole, and through the use of
editing a graphic-match cut of the plughole transitioning to the eye is played
out. This represents her life is being washed away, as of the blood from her
body going down the drain. This is also presented as collision cutting as the
fast-paced montage of short takes when Marion is being attacked becomes her
body on the floor and her eye almost as if it’s watching us. Also the idea that
the eye is the window of the soul is played out here, due to Marion’s life
ending, we’re shown her ended life first through this shot of the eye, watching
it as a window of her soul draining away.
The water from the shower in this close-up shot is running
down her face, but the camera being focused on her eye gives off the impression
that the water represents tears and that she’s crying.
As the camera rotates while zooming away from Marion’s eye,
it signifies how her life has been turned upside down, it also shows her idea
of stealing the money then readying to go back and return it gives a sense of a
twist, a plot change and this rotation signifies that. As it’s spinning, it
connotes confusion which is exactly what the audience would be feeling after
assuming Marion is the main character, and being killed off less than half way
through the film is surprising.
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