Sunday, January 31, 2010

THE BIRDS

I am tired. Tomorrow is a one-hour delay. Hopefully it will be moved to a two-hour delay and maybe no school!! haha I am watching THE BIRDS by Alfred Hitchcock. Its a weird story. I would be freaking out if birds were attacking everyone. It's weird that he never finishes the story. It just ends with them driving off with a field of birds on each side. I hate how it doesn't tell why birds like that. I think in the 8th grade, our teacher had us read the short story THE BIRDS. That one was even stranger. The main characters lived near a bay and the birds rode up to the shore on the waves. When they got there they started attacking only at night, then they attacked people. Progressively they became sensitive to everything and just kept attacking. The last scene was the family barricaded in their house listening to the radio, with the sound of the birds trying their best to break through the house, and the newscaster is saying birds all over the country are being unusually hostile and the government thought the cause was bad algae. The government was trying to help and destroy the birds, but they were not making any progress. After they announcer went off the family were just listening to the birds trying to get in. I assumed they died. Strange ending.

2 comments:

  1. Alfred Hitchcock is one of the coolest/freakiest shows that I have seen.
    And I find it ironic that the end of your blog read, "Strange ending". Which, if you look one sentence prior, read, "I assumed they died."
    Strange ending?

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  2. A bunch of his movies were on last night on the BBC. My favorite of his is SHADOW OF A DOUBT. Most of the movie the main character's father and his coworker are talking about how the would kill each other. lol
    hehe =)

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