Ang Lee's review: This is a film about perversion and female sexuality

Greta 2022-04-21 09:01:27

As I get older, I appreciate Hitchcock more. I saw new things, like that quirk, that I missed when I was younger. My favorite is "The Birds". It's haunting, it's creepy. When I was young, it felt like it was just a ghostly bird, that's all. But now that I'm older, I can see that this is a movie about perversions and female sexuality. That's when you see the bird disturbed. When those women are angry, it can be seen as a form of sexual harassment. The birds become active, and they can synchronize the feelings of these ladies: jealousy, anger, and the film is very effective. Really talented director.

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Extended Reading
  • Lamont 2021-10-26 03:30:58

    The protagonist has an Oedipus complex and is very likely to commit adultery with his mother and kill his father. The bird's attack target is the heroine and the mother's attack target.

  • Isabell 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    When Hitchcock and Truffaut talked, they distinguished between suspense and surprise, which was also reflected in the flock of birds. At 1:10, the heroine went to the school to pick up Cathy. The audience began to feel nervous when they saw the first crow landed there, and the heroine was smoking with her back, but the audience could see it, and the audience participated from the beginning. The whole process takes longer, and the audience is provided with 15 minutes of suspense instead of 15 seconds of surprise.

The Birds quotes

  • Lydia Brenner: I'm not like this, you know. Not usually. I don't fuss and fret over my children.

  • 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.