The film is a Hitchcock film with a peculiar temperament, a drama film that is neither thriller nor suspenseful. Melanie went to the pet store to pick up the plan to tease her aunt's bird at the appointed time, and Mitch came to the pet store to buy a parrot for her sister's birthday. Seeing this, Melanie pretends to be a clerk to tease Mitch, and Mitch sees through her trick and fools her. Melanie was attracted to him by ghosts, and found Mitch's address through his father's relationship, and immediately ordered a parrot at the pet store and delivered it to him in person. The next day it was empty, and Mitch's neighbors told Mitch to go back to the country for the weekend and return to San Francisco on Monday. Melanie didn't give up and drove 60 kilometers to the countryside just to give him the two birds he bought in person. Arriving in the town, after several tossing, the bird was successfully delivered to Mitch's house, and the boat returning from Mitch's house to the dock suffered the first bird attack. After that, I learned that Annie, a small-town teacher, left the city life of San Francisco for Mitch and came to live in the town for more than four years. Then I learned from Annie's mouth that Mitch's mother's feelings for Mitch were grotesque, and it seemed that she was unwilling to share her son with others. Accidental attack by seagulls, ex-girlfriend Annie, possessive mother, etc. appear in Hitchcock's films, speculating that there will be murders or secrets that cannot be seen. How to know the story is more and more surprising, Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party, the birds attacked for the first time; once again, attacked the students; once again, caused a fuel explosion, Annie died trying to save Cathy; the town was attacked by the birds. , like an apocalyptic scene. The last two-thirds of the plot of the film seems to have nothing to do with the first third of the plot, like Melanie, who likes to "do evil". But these senses of separation can't affect the look and feel of this movie, it is so compact and tense.
Hitchcock uses one enclosed space after another to place the public in the same situation as the actor. In the first attack at Mitch's house, hundreds of birds swarmed out of the chimney and wreaked havoc in the living room of Mitch's house; in the second attack, a flock of birds attacked the Mitch's house, which had been nailed to wood for protection. The mouth gnawed on the wooden board, and the situation was no less mild than the "zombie" attack; the last time Melanie was trapped in the room alone, hundreds of birds rushed up, and Melanie was pecked and bruised all over. In addition, in the tavern, when Melanie told the local residents in the tavern about the incident of the bird attack on the student, the ornithologist who believed that the bird would not attack the human, the dock worker who said the end of the world, did not want the child to hear the bird's "horror". The mother of the "attack", because we have all "witnessed" the horror of the bird attack, so we know that the situation is critical, and these people who don't know it are more worried. The small space created by Hitchcock is as immersive as possible, as if he has suffered from bird trauma syndrome, and when he sees the wires littered with birds, he consciously runs away from it.
The bird's attack is on the front, and the crowd is on the side. The positive and negative contrast is a realistic record of an incident of a bird attacking a person. There is no scientific basis, no ending to the protagonist of the story, and everything is stuck in the way of the car driving past the ground full of birds and leaving the town.
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