Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Birds (1963)

Is this this first film where the real shock comes from, not what happens on screen, but what doesn't happen at all? Neither on, nor off screen, does the most frightening part of this film ever take place.

Concerning a rather boring woman doing rather boring things, she moves to a new town where she seems to have some mystical attraction where birds attack her and her friends. These attacks escalate until the end, during a pause in their attacks, the characters escape - under the watchful eye of hundreds and thousands of silent birds.

What comes next, we will never know.

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