Yesterday my class started watching Birds, another Alfred Hitchcock film. Since we just finished watching his film, Psycho, as well as Ridley Scott's Alien, I assumed that this would be a horror/drama film, but so far it doesn't seem like it will be. Regardless, I'm still interested in seeing the rest of it.
The movie starts out with a woman, whose name is Melanie, shopping at a pet shop. A man wearing a suit and tie, named Mitch, came in, and claimed to have seen her before in court. She liked to play practical jokes, and apparently one of them had sent her to court. I could tell that she was upset about him bringing the subject up, and shortly after he left, she began to track him down. She asked about him around town, and ended up taking a boat all the way to Bodega Bay, an island off the coast of San Francisco. This is where the movie does show its age: it lacked the realism that today's modern films have, but it was released all the way back in 1963.
After reaching the island, Melanie dropped the birds off at Mitch's house, and quickly went back to her boat. Not only did Mitch see her, but she was attacked by a seagull as well on the way back to the mainland. As soon as he saw her, Mitch drove at the speed of light, and met her back at the dock she had come from, coming to her rescue.
What really struck me about what I've seen so far in this movie is that she went to such great lengths to track him down. Clearly she was very determined to find him, but she made some mistakes along the way when it comes to being sneaky. She could've at least ducked down.
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