Why did the post office clerk and the man who rented the boat look strange when Melanie first arrived in Bodega Bay, like a trap? Who threw the dead bird at the teacher's door? Who killed Dan? Why does Melanie insist on going up the stairs and into the dangerous attic? Mitch carefully went to the garage to drive after a round of bird strikes. Most of the shots were immersed in a blue-black haze. Mitch was facing sideways or even his back to the camera most of the time. Why did I still find a smile on the corner of his mouth? Non-smiling and sly, like the secret joy after the prank has been achieved.
Here I can only answer one question with certainty. Regarding Melanie's entry into the attic, it should be said that this behavior is loyal to Melanie's character. Whether it's Melanie, who was a bit boring and willful at the beginning, or Melanie, who gradually became understanding and understanding in the bird attack, she is always a beautiful, confident and capable girl who is loyal to her emotions. If she likes this man, she buys love Birds came to visit and played the piano at her fingertips. When asked if she could drive a motorboat, her head was slightly raised forty-five degrees: "Of course I will". This action is so expressive, it immediately exudes self-confidence, and unconsciously falls in love with this girl. Later, she encountered a bird attack. The first time she was pecked on the forehead by a seagull when she was sailing back alone, she seemed a little helpless at that time. The second time at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party, all the people who participated in the party were attacked. There were many children. Melanie bravely protected Cathy, in contrast to the performance of Mitch's mother who was panicked. Mitch's mother gave people a strong feeling as soon as she appeared on the stage, and this image was more fleshed out from Annie's description. She should be a mother who did her best to "protect" Mitch from other women. However, in the event of an emergency, her external strength is revealed. In danger, she is still a protected object. In the same situation as Melanie's protector image, it is clear who is stronger and who is weaker. Dan's death is very abrupt, and the viewers must think that this is a clue to strongly advance the plot. Through the narration of a third party, the police have confirmed that Dan was murdered first, and then the bird broke in and pecked his eyes out. Doesn't it imply that bird strikes are also human-directed disasters? But this clue was broken, and the director arranged it as an accidental event to completely destroy Mitch's mother's pseudo-strong appearance. She frankly revealed her thoughts and all in front of Melanie, which also convinced me who watched the movie. This is a step in the quest for reconciliation, and the possibility of Mitch's mother manipulating the bird strike behind the scenes is basically ruled out.
What happened after that was weird. Mitch's mother worried about Cathy who was in school. Melanie was entrusted to go to school to pick Cathy home, and she encountered another large-scale bird attack. To be honest, I was a little confused when Melanie was pecked for the first time on the boat, and realized that this was another suspense movie under the guise of love, but at this time, I couldn't believe it turned into a disaster movie. . I can't believe that fat Xi can make disaster films! If you put aside this rational suspicion, the school scene is very interesting. There were still a few minutes before school. Melanie was sitting on the bench at the school entrance smoking a cigarette. A crow flew on the long shelf in front of her. She turned her head and came back. One crow became three, and she turned again. Turning her head back, the three crows became five. She was very anxious and kept turning her head to the left. Every time she turned back, the number of crows on the shelf increased, and it took less than one cigarette (the director made her smoke. It's wonderful, he explained the incident very euphemistically), the long shelf was full of crows, and Melanie realized that the danger was about to come... This heart attack is an excellent performance of suspense. In contrast, the tension behind the crows chasing and attacking the child is less intense. Xi Fat is still very tricky. He asked Melanie to hide in a tavern after the bird attack. The big bird in front of the tavern attacked the driver who was refueling. It caused a series of explosions. People in the tavern went out to save the pecked driver and were attacked by the gathered birds. This "aftershock" was stronger than the main shock, and Melanie fled into a room that could only accommodate one person. The phone booth, the big bird rushed down and attacked the phone booth again and again, cracks appeared in the glass, and at the same time there were people outside knocking on the glass hoping to squeeze in to cover up... At this time, Melanie was in deep crisis, struggling just a short distance away. Children are free to dominate the world outside. Do you think that the identities of humans and birds have been exchanged... The crisis of this kind of person shown by Xi Pang is more profound than that of many people who were transformed by aliens later. In fact, we humans are just one of the living beings (creatures) on the earth. We are fortunate to be the masters of the earth. Will human beings be replaced by other creatures one day and lose their human rights, called birds, chickens, cows and sheep. ah to be used, to be slaughtered?
Through this attack, we completely forgot about Dan's death, and hurriedly followed Mitch to the Gawagu window to be alert for the next bird strike.
And it really came!
The character standing up this time is Mitch. Mitch's manly charm when he first met Melanie at the pet store drew the wayward Miss Melanie to the town. After that, the light of the character disappeared, and Mitch, who was by his mother's side, was more like a child who followed the rules. And the last scene, let us see his male strength. He nailed the windows, added firewood to the fireplace, lifted the mirror to block the door, comforted the three women, the old, middle and small, and became the mainstay of this moment. The blood on the hand caught by the bird who attacked the window added to the male strength, and the man finally broke free from the confinement set by the female, like a mature man.
Going back to the previous question, Melanie's courage and fearlessness in adversity are the strong side of her personality. Even though she had just been hit by a strong bird attack, even when faced with a staircase that might be full of conspiracy, even though the neighing of birds in her ears, all of which clearly signaled danger, Melanie rose to the top and went up the stairs. , opened the door, saw the broken skylight on the roof, and then flocks of birds rushed towards her... Before pushing the door, she was a "savior" image (I was tricked by a "mental patient"), Pushing the door open, her strong image was completely destroyed by "pecking". She and Mitch's mother, two strong females, were all transformed into weak images, and Mitch really became a man. Xi Fat believes in the supremacy of male power. In this movie, he should reshape the male power with the help of the power of birds. Today, in this information age, men and women are neutralized, and the power of nature has been weakened. Maybe men can get back on their feet, only by natural disasters. In the last scene, in a "doomsday" metaphor, Mitch had a smug smile on the corner of Mitch's mouth.
Finally, excerpt a paragraph comparing the different opinions at both ends.
Ang Lee: "As I get older, I appreciate Hitchcock more. I see new things, like that quirk, that I missed when I was younger. My favorite is The Birds. It's haunting, it's creepy. When I was younger, it felt like it was just a ghost bird, that's all. But now that I'm older, I can see it's a movie about perversions and female sexuality. That's you See the moment when the birds are disturbed. When those women are angry, it can be seen as a form of sexual harassment. The birds become active and they can synchronize the feelings of these ladies: jealous, angry, the film is very effective. What a genius director. "
"'The Birds' is the story of her search for her lost mother, a woman who abandoned her years ago and whom she 'refinds' at the end in Lydia Brenner, the very woman who at first seems to reject her."
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