Force of nature

Fletcher 2021-10-22 14:35:03

Technically speaking, this movie is amazing, using more than 350 special effects lenses to shoot. In a certain scene, there are flocks of birds all over the mountains and plains, covering the entire field of vision, and more than 30 films put together to create such an effect. Before this film, Hitchcock repeatedly tried to satisfy the audience. Birds have created the shock and fear that the mysterious world lacks. This story is partly based on facts, because a few years ago a small West Coast community had been attacked by flocks of birds for unknown reasons. The only reason Hitchcock gave us was not straightforward. A guest in the school cafeteria there explained that birds might be revenge for human damage to the earth's ecology. In any case, this film is still Hitchcock’s most brutal, evil and memorable one of
Hitchcock’s films-Birds, an emotionally disturbing film that uses simple techniques, even Using the least lethal animals, our winged friends, transformed into attacking humans who only had two feet and were confined to land.
Psychologists saw Freud, environmentalists emphasized the symbiotic relationship between birds and humans, and politically sensitive people heard the film’s fear of the world crisis in the 1960s. The pessimistic people bemoan the end of the world, and the optimistic people see the light in the distance at the end. Hitchcock, as always, showed a mysterious smile on the ground.
Personally, I don’t want to say anything about this movie. I just hope you will taste it carefully and hope you can see your own answers from it.

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The Birds quotes

  • Lydia Brenner: When Frank died... You see he understood the children, he really understood them. He had the knack of entering into their world, of becoming a part of them. That's a very rare talent.

    Melanie Daniels: Yes.

    Lydia Brenner: Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish I could be that way.

  • Lydia Brenner: I miss him. Sometimes, even now, I wake up in the morning and I think, 'I must get Frank's breakfast.' And I get up and - there's a very good reason for getting out of bed until, of course, I remember. I miss talking to him. Cathy's a child, of course, and Mitch, well, Mitch has his own life. I'm glad he stayed here today. I feel safer with him here.