flock of birds flying

Yvette 2022-04-20 09:01:17

The title is accompanied by the sound of flapping wings, and the silhouettes of the birds are constantly passing over the screen, with this chaotic sense of disorder. However, when the camera turns, the next scene is a very delicate pet store with a lot of birds hanging in it. cage. The switching between these two scenes changes the situation of the birds from free entry to bondage, and the noisy bird calls are replaced by a human conversation about bird trade.
The story then develops as usual.
What's the point of the birds' ensuing, seemingly regular attacks? From the indifference of human beings and the few words on the broadcast to the seriousness of bird attacks, the words "man-bird war" and "end of the world" have been mentioned.
At the end of the film, the car escapes amid a huge number of birds, carrying the hero's family and the heroine injured by the bird attack, and a pair of parrots trapped in a cage - because they have not attacked anyone is innocent. Does this mean: when humans have the ability to trap birds in cages, when birds are under the control of human order, but are they really people's trust in exchange for freedom? In fact, their fate of enslavement is only a foil for the human-dominated world order. Once out of the cage, they are no longer in control, and the disorder of birds is really only for humans, and for the birds themselves, it is just their natural state. Humans make a fuss, because they have become accustomed to human beings in control of all order, but forget that even birds in cages have the ability to fly freely.
When I saw the title of Hitchcock's "The Birds", I couldn't help thinking of my QQ signature last year. At that time, I chose a photo of birds flying in the air as my avatar, so I changed it to " Flocks of birds flying" signature, and the next day someone asked me what happened.
Birds can only fly in groups and orderly according to their migration habits, or they can only stay in cages quietly for people to watch and trade. In fact, why isn't that the case with humans? Everyone can make mistakes, but humanity as a whole can only take every step in a predetermined order, otherwise, panic and fear are unavoidable.

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Extended Reading
  • Lamont 2021-10-26 03:30:58

    The protagonist has an Oedipus complex and is very likely to commit adultery with his mother and kill his father. The bird's attack target is the heroine and the mother's attack target.

  • Isabell 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    When Hitchcock and Truffaut talked, they distinguished between suspense and surprise, which was also reflected in the flock of birds. At 1:10, the heroine went to the school to pick up Cathy. The audience began to feel nervous when they saw the first crow landed there, and the heroine was smoking with her back, but the audience could see it, and the audience participated from the beginning. The whole process takes longer, and the audience is provided with 15 minutes of suspense instead of 15 seconds of surprise.

The Birds quotes

  • Mitch Brenner: You like me, huh?

    Melanie Daniels: I loathe you. You have no manners. You're arrogant and conceited and... I wrote you a letter about it, in fact, but I tore it up.

    Mitch Brenner: What did it say?

    Melanie Daniels: None of your business.

  • Lydia Brenner: No, they're *not* fussy chickens.