"The Birds" (1963 Alfred Hitchcock) is still my favorite horror disaster film, despite Alfred's exquisite lens language, the crow brigade, the dilapidated wooden house, the bayside small The town filmed the sight of Judgment Day, and Melanie, played by Tippi Hedren, escaped several times from the beak of an angry and hungry bird, which was nerve-wracking and creepy enough.
While watching this film, I couldn't help but try to see the interesting symbolic admonitions and religious metaphors behind the revenge of the "flock to attack" from the perspective of environmentalists and members of the bird clan, the flock of birds in the opening scene is horribly savage. , violent tendencies, blood-eating carnivores, and when they attack humans later, they show the "unusual unity and well-trainedness" that is unique to small social animals, and the decency, dignified style, vanity, mutual suspicion, and mutual suspicion that human characters always show. The atomization of the individual and the small family is a stark contrast to the fear of dying.
If we look to the forests and lakes, whether it is the ornamental birds bred in the small greenhouses in the human landscape, or the weak young chicks that are ruthlessly hunted in the wild, as the natives of the natural society, their blood is always sacrificed, the crows The feathers of the bird will become the decorations that embellish the ornate mask, and stuffing them into a cage is equivalent to breaking the noble human head, because captivity is the circumcision of birds, like a woman who loses clitoris and can no longer experience joy.
When the camera is turned back to the black-and-white world of "Birds", the broken and colorful feathers flying all over the human civilization become Satan's black cassock in the movie, the scythe of the soul that harvests human life, and the blackmail and fanaticism of nature. Soul memory, the birds call for friends and friends, you come and I rush hand in hand, become the dark cloud above the head that cannot escape in the horror fantasy. Once plentiful feathers are plucked, and the cement blocks ripped apart by natural habitats are exchanged for banknotes and woven birdcages, dark clouds of vengeful angels come to rob people of conscience, reason, lost virtue and love. Blindly addicted.
In addition, the ruthless ruthlessness of the dense flock of birds to kill humans not only contrasts with the "sometimes nervous and sometimes excited" demeanor of the paired lovebirds in the cage when the bird disaster strikes, but also represents the role played by Tippi Hedren. Melanie, as a "caged bird" eager to be loved, encounters a female-specific reality - they are "nurtured, carefully managed, told to protect their beautiful feathers, captured by the waiter, and then destroyed their willpower and confidence." , finally up for sale, and successfully lived in a beautiful big cage to become a pair of perfect bullshit "love birds".
Personal understanding: At the beginning, the female protagonist selected the love gift "Love Birds" for the male protagonist at the flower and bird shop - this pair of important characters throughout the whole process from the beginning to the end of the film, part of which symbolized the "sexual liberation and feminism of the Western world in the 1960s". The traditional concept of nuclear family, which was gradually dissipated after the impact of the "Islamicism Movement" and so on, was no longer solid, and replaced the perspective of the audience who is watching The Revenge of the Birds in reality.
The three favorite posters are placed at the end. Red, white and blue are the most beautiful color combinations. The red one "Tippi Hedren and the Bird" looks too David Lynch! (Reminds me of Lora from Twin Peaks Season 1.
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