Alfred Hitchcock Birds

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“The Birds” is a very twisted and bizarre movie that is carried out to show swarms of birds taking their anger out on mankind at Bodega Bay. Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film “The Birds” explores the relationship between nature and humanity and the possible meaning and role of crisis in the journey to authentic human relationships. There is never really an explanation but at the same time many things could have been the cause of this tragedy. The two main characters, Mitch and Melanie, meet in a bird shop at the beginning of the movie but Mitch only knew Melanie because he had once seen her in court. He came into the store looking for a birthday present for his sister, love birds, while Melanie was looking for a present for her Aunt. Hitchcock based…show more content…
By the end, you can see that there was never an explanation because there is no explanation. Hitchcock frequently uses a technique called “McGuffin” in his movie. Hitchcock defines this as "The plot device, of little intrinsic interest, such as lost or stolen papers, that triggers the action." (Quotation from Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion). He uses this in his stories by not revealing why such things are happening in the story, such as why the birds are attacking people. The audience never finds out what is written on the stolen papers as well. You can believe that the birds start to attack because they were fed bad chicken feed, they are lost or got lost in the fog, that they have been bothered by the children, or even that they are rounding up to migrate. Many people are sure to believe that when Melanie brought the love birds to the house that she bought at the bird shop was surely the cause. Others may see the movie as a physical thing that refers to an idea or emotion, such as a changing of rules by which humans see the world, a small bird put into a big cage. The fact that nothing is certain about life, Melanie's guilt for the things she did in her younger days, and the bird's revenge for humans putting them in cages. The birds could be striking back against all the abuse mankind has inflicted on birds, the caging of birds and the way birds have been treated as rotten creatures could have started a war between humans and the
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