The story is about her. When she stayed with the Mitch family in the sealed house, we had a hunch, and when she walked up the stairs alone and put her hand on the doorknob, we accepted her fate first. To some extent, we all encountered the atrocities, because this is a movie, because we are the audience; to some extent, we are all perpetrators, because we have expectations. When the man nailed all the doors and windows, when the birds found nothing in the continuous attack, when she was walking up the stairs slowly, we were all waiting, waiting for her to open the door, we knew it would There is such a door.
The matter has developed into a situation where someone must be attacked, and we know who will bear it: only she is qualified. She may not be the core of the problem, but it is the source of the chaos: the jealousy of the ex-girlfriend, the vigilance of Mitch's mother, the unprovoked accusations of the residents of the town-even the flock of birds, because this is such a story. At first we only perceive it vaguely, but this is already doomed. Before she chooses to go upstairs alone, before Mitch turns her house into a cage, before the birds appear, things are irreversible. The view that the birds came to the town with her is not unreasonable. It is inevitable that there will be other victims, but what about it. Only her is important, and even she is insignificant. The only important thing is that she was killed. The attack happened. All this is only related to her, and she, she is related to Hitchcock.
So I feel ashamed, not because I was looking forward to this scene, but after the heroine was attacked, I realized that she was useless, now she is just the remains of the brutality, no one will do anything to her anymore expect. This is the truly cruel part of "The Birds". After that, the story needs an end, but we no longer need the story and any part of it.
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