The Birds

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Year: 1963

Actors: Rod Tayler, Tippi Hedren, Suzzane Pleshette

Narrative

The bird is about carnivorous birds feasting on human flesh, as a wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues for her love interest in a small northern California town that slowly takes a huge turn for the weird and bizarre, when the birds start to attack and feed on the humans.

Suspense and Thrill:

In this movie and trailer there are multiple elements of thrill. There is a lot of fast pace editing and cuts, to show the birds ravenous attacks and even shocking scenes of a mans eye pecked out by a bird. This scene is disturbing and horrific creating tension and masses of thrill, even making us as the audiences afraid of these harmless animals, when we walk out the cinema/home. this creates a great creepy atmosphere to the film, making us somehow involved in the film. 

At the beginning of this shocking scene, we see the wife return to her loving home, to sight that all her cups had been smashed into pieces and, when she tries to call for her husband, he doesn’t respond, this creates an enigma code, making us as the audience to question what happened to her husband if his asleep or dead, or what had occurred, when his wife wasn’t in the house. We are the shown with a man (husband) in the corner of the room with his eyes pecked out, dead on the floor. This scene creates a shocking eerie atmosphere through out the film.