... if she is aware of the viewing audience she reaches out for help, clasps onto the shower curtain, and slumps forward to her death. Hitchcock then uses some special editing techniques to finalize the murder, and address the shock of the audience. He cuts to the shower head, and then to her legs in the tub, where the blood from her ... was that this final sequence of shots, similar to the first, lasting for forty seconds, and consisting of six editing cuts, one less than the first. Hitchcock has created a mini-narrative with this shower scene made up by a long introduction, a long conclus...

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