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The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock · 1963 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A San Francisco socialite drives up the coast with a pair of lovebirds for a man she is flirting with, and gulls start striking people in the small bay town where he lives. The attacks escalate from one cut forehead to a schoolyard, a petrol station and a boarded farmhouse. Hitchcock used no score at all, only electronically generated bird noise, over hundreds of composited optical shots.

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Attributes

Genre
HorrorThrillerPsychological
Theme
Nature vs CivilizationSurvivalIsolation & AlienationMotherhood
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
HeroineThe Great MotherEveryman
Plot structure
Siege / Last StandOpen Ending
Symbol / motif
The BeastWings / FlightThe HouseThe Sea
Conflict
vs Naturevs Person
Mode / tone
IronicGothic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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