I know this is a little outdated for our class currently, but I wanted to refer back to the Psycho shower scene we viewed in class, with the purpose of evaluating a particular instance of graphic matching. After the actress is murdered, and lies bleeding in the shower, the camera pans down to rest upon the empty drain whole, as the woman’s blood, her “life force” disappear into the dark abyss. Hitchcock’s cinematic genius ignites in this instance, as he implements a graphic match dissolve, creating a connection between the circular drain opening and the lifeless eyes of the actress. Furthermore, the drain is an inanimate, and therefore lifeless object, which can be said of the now inanimate, and recently lifeless corpse the murderer left behind. What is such a subtle moment in a film can have such a profound impact on its viewers.