1963 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
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I like how the end of the movie is just the birds back to being stupid birds trying not to get run over by a car, but that's what makes The Birds scary to begin with. The Birds trick you into a false sense of security and you're like ah yes these birds, they are so stupid, look at them fly and eat garbage, but then you've got fifty of them on top of you and you're just fucked, and their act of stupidity was all a ploy. I believe this to be true, because geese are already halfway there to revealing their true nature
Humans: *are horny*
Birds of the Earth: Okay you know what, fuck this, they’re done
Alfred Hitchcock is a genius because he knew that a thousand normal-sized birds were much scarier than one enormous bird
A masterclass in mystery & suspense, a marvel of technical filmmaking, and a perfect demonstration of how clueless & unprepared we are against the forces of nature, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds remains one of the most under-appreciated works of his career and is easily amongst my top 3 favourites from this genius filmmaker.
Starting on a relaxed note which only serves as the calm before the storm, the story concerns a wealthy San Francisco socialite who pursues her romantic interest to his small Northern California town where things soon take a turn for the bizarre when the entire community is suddenly & viciously attacked by birds of all kinds for no explicable reason.
Ingeniously directed by Hitchcock, the first half is pretty much…
i could easily defeat these little fuckers by simply not having a bunch of a pent up internal sexual and familial chaos to prey on or be externalized in the first place.
The introduction of an invasive species of sexually available young woman into a small town causes the funniest possible apocalypse.
Check me out talking "The Birds" on the Generation Loss podcast:
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