The birds

The Birds

 

 



 

 

 

 

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Year: 1963

Actors: Rod Tayler, Tippi Hedren, Suzzane Pleshette

 

Narrative:

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. This time the external threat comes from nature, the birds! Herden (actor) was actually cut on the face by abird whilst filming!

Suspense and thrill:

Within this movie and the trailer there are mulitple elements of thrill. There is use of fast pace cutting, scens of bird attacks and even scenes of a man with his eyes pecked out. This scene is very disturbing and create masses of thrill and tension. At the begginning when the wife returns we notice that all the china cups are broken and her husband is un responsive. This creates an enigma code. We as the audience question where he is and what has occured whilst the wife was absent. We are then presneted with a scene of her husband clumped dead in the corner with his eyes suspectedly 'pecked' out. This creates an erie and very frightening thrill through out the rest of the film. This film too created fear within birds for the audience, many would shriek when one would come close. At the end of the film Hitchcock did not do his usual style of showing 'The End' instead there was nothing. This was done too add again a thrilling an eeire feel to the movie. It implies to the audience that in fact the movie is not over, it will still continue, the birds shall attack. This is very creepy in itself as birds are free animals and are around us whenever we go out. This is a great way to end a movie in his time adding that extra cold chill to the atmosphere.