Analyzing Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

For the final installment of my Alfred Hitchcock analyzations, I will taking a look at “The Birds.”

Not much can be said about “The Birds.” Unlike other Hitchcock films, there doesn’t seem to be a hidden message or double meaning behind what is initially presented.

However, that doesn’t mean it is at all a bad movie. It has a type of “B-movie” feel going for it, which makes it all the more a treat for modern day viewers. Cross Alfred Hitchcock’s amazing horror style with a B-movie vibe, and the outcome will be something truly unique.

The horror itself is wonderful, as this is some of Hitchcock’s most intense work. The use of lighting and camera movement definitely created a masterful sense of dread whenever a character walked by a horde of the vicious birds. This film truly set Hitchcock’s title of the “Master of Suspense” in stone.

REFLECTION

Alfred Hitchcock is a truly magnificent filmmaker. His style, tension, and, above all, determination, set him as one of the finest directors of all time. He has made some of the most intense and masterful works of art the film world has ever seen, and he will go down in history as such. May your legacy forever live on, “Master of Suspense.”