Film · Universal · 1963
Pass it on
The Birds
43Leave it.
Not for a small child. The town never gets an explanation, and the film will not invent one.
Take controlThis scores 43. The Birds cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
She drives to a town on the coast to see a man, and the birds of the place begin to kill people. A school is one of the places it happens. I am not going to inventory the attacks. There is no explanation, and the film is proud of not having one. The pride is a craft and a limit. Craft, because a cause would have let the audience off the fear. Limit, because a weekend of fear without a meaning is a thin thing to hand a house, however well it is made.
Not for a small child, and not a dare. Older teenagers can take one viewing. Ask what the people did once they understood the street was not safe, and who they went back for. The answer is a child and a house. That is the only moral the film accidentally contains, and it is more useful than the reputation. The reputation is the attack. The attack is a device. Do not let the device be the thing you are showing off that you sat through.
Journal
Keep The Birds in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Silence of the Lambs
49 instead of 43
The Silence of the Lambs is still a horror film, and it scores 49 instead of 43. What you gain is courage: She goes down the hall.
The eight
- 4Industry
A town has shops and a school. The work of the film is barricading, not understanding.
- 5Household
A mother, a younger sister, and a suitor are the household under the attack.
- 2Piety
No reason is offered from above or from science. The silence is the design.
- 6Courage
They go out into the street anyway, to reach a child, which is the courage.
- 4Republic
A town is the public, and it responds badly, which is plausible and thin.
- 4Temperance
The scare is measured and then, at the school, it is a great deal.
- 5Truth
The film refuses a cause. That refusal is honest and also a way of not having to say anything.
- 4Stewardship
A house inherits a fear of the ordinary. It does not inherit a meaning to do anything with.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · The Birds · 43IMDb tt0056869
