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The Birds
As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can’t be explained and can’t be stopped in one of Hollywood’s most horrific films of nature gone berserk.
The narrative is full of enigmas. Why do the birds attack? What is the significance of the lovebirds, which Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) has brought as a present for the kid sister of Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)? Is there a casual relationship between Melanie's arrival in Bodega Bay and the horror of what follows? By raising and refusing to answer these questions, Hitchcock ensures that the complacency of these characters has been completely undermined, which is one of the main themes of the film.
"The Birds" is Hitchcock's very innovative film. The electrical effects on the soundtrack are superbly orchestrated, and the four hundred trick shots involving the birds move Hitchcock's cinema makes impession.
Mitch and Melanie seem trapped in a game of surface and satirical sparring. The birds serve as an externalization if this inner tension. A story of lovebirds becomes a story of hatebirds, and what starts out as a peck on Melanie's head develops into a wholesale assault on her world. It is almost as if the birds come out of the sky in anger at human behavior, ripping apart the evasions, deceptions and snobbishness of these people and forcing them to discover a new sincerity and courage.
Another classic scene is when Melanie waits for Cathy outside the school and the birds mass behind her in preparation for an attack on the children, turning the playground into a territory of terror. The sly way Hitchcock builds the scene, by showing one bird, and then four, then concealing his full hand until Melanie turns, surrounded, is suspense film crafted of the highest class.
I think it’s the best film of Hitchcock, better even than the famous Psycho.

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