The Birds

Plot Summary

The Birds is a horror film, the story mainly follows a young women named Melanie Daniels. She visits a bird shop in San Fransisco to pick up a bird she has ordered for her aunt, there she meets Mitch Brenner, a lawyer looking for a pair of Lovebirds to give to his sister.

After they have met Mitch leaves and Melanie is interested in him. She buys the Lovebirds and fins Mitches address in Bodega Bay in California. She delivers the Birds by sneaking across the bay by boat and leaves the Lovebirds in Mitches house. But on the way back a Seagull swoops down and cuts her head.

Over the next few days more bird attacks happen. At Mitches little 11 year old sisters party, a flock of gulls attack the children.

As the film progresses the Bodega Bay School is attacked also by Crows.

After this Melanie goes to a bar and rings her father, a nespaper publisher when more people become interested in the matter. A fisherman says one of his boats was attacked by gulls. Some people begin to get scared and leave when The Birds attack again. A man is knocked unconcious while filling up his car when the gasoline pours out onto the street. Disaster strikes. Thousands of birds of every kind attack the town. Melanie is attacked and hides in a phone box. Birds try to get in and smash the glass. She is rescued and is taken home after the birds have gone away

When they get home they board up the windows and stay inside the house. In the night the birds try to ger in by ripping up the wood from the door and smashing through windows. Mitch eventually stopps them and they all go to sleep.

The film ends with them driving away with thousands of birds watching.

REVIEW

The Birds was made in 1963 by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a supence/horror film based on the 1952 short story by Daphne Du Maurier. I think that The Birds is an exellent film, the effects and techniques used to make it as real as possible are good. The film is quite frighening and disturbing in parts which is fantastic!

Also the thing that makes it different is that there is no soundtrack even in the scary parts. If there was music in the scary parts it would have made it corny with the dramatic music used in the 60's, also it adds to the realism because there is no music.

The part that I find boring is at the begining. I think they could have made it shorter and less slow. But there is a good side to these begining scenes. The scenes at the start are just like any old 60's film, it starts when the main character is buying a bird from the bird shop. It makes you think "Oh, this is an ordinary happy film! Yay!" But as the film progresses, the mood changes into a dark scary, disturbing film about birds attacking people and the attacks become more violent and deadly.

So, as a conclusion, I think The Birds is a pretty, darn good film.