Hitchcock is a goddamn genius! I love his movies so so so much!
This movie wholly differs from the last six I've watched. Not focusing on the mystery alone, it reveals something deeper, in such a well connected and well organised way. Consider that flocks of birds attack you, your house, and you actually can 't do anything about it, you can't even try to convince people that those birds did attack people, until doubters, including that old bird scholar, if I may call her that, truly witness this attack, but it was late. That's why it's alarming almost 60 years later. Even the modernization and civilazation go all the way to today's high, how much use it would help if the same flocks really came to us?We wouldn't behave more courageous or brave or strong than them then. You gotta know that these birds are just like mosquitos, meaning obviously there is no way to completely eliminate them.
Remember the last scene? They try to gave as much protection as they can. At that time, my guessing was that their leaving the bay would probably mark the end, and the ending was exactly how I'd predicted.
Charming Melenie, high EQ Mitch...any character of this movie, I just enjoyed their conversations.
It is hardly imaginable that Alfred conveyed his worries by means of bird-attacking. But it seems like it's adapted from some already existed novel.
Anyway, really really nice!
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