The Birds: Explained! Cinema de Merde

Cinema de Merde's video review of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, arguing that the bird attacks are the manifestation of the mother's rage against rivals for her son's affection.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Birds
• Alfred
• Hitchcock
• Psycho
• Tippi
• Hedren
• film
• video
• dvd
• musicals
• bad
• movie
• review
• cinema
• de
• merde

[coolitababy]

Interesting, but you talk WAY TOO fast.

Either you're nervous or you've a plane to catch.

Anyone for whom English isn't their first language would have trouble following this.

[cinemademerde]

@coolitababy

Sorry, but YouTube until very recently had a maximum length of 10 minutes... I already whittle my reviews way down to fit in that time period, so the fast talking is part of that!

[donovan1971]

My friends liked your explanation of the film. Good job

[cinemademerde]

@donovan1971 Yay... thanks for letting me know.

[DocHackenbush]

This was great! You should start a second channel named different though for gems like this.

[cinemademerde]

@DocHackenbush Thanks for the kind words. I know what you mean [about the different name] but... I tend to like things a bit chaotic and undefinable with my site... It's another way of saying the rules are off.

[hammertapping]

good video & explanation.

however have to disagree with your claims that 'bird attacks are the manifestation of mother's rage against rivals for son's affection' & that movie is 'carefully arranged' to give this reading.

to agree with those claims one has to ignore(as in video)attack on farmer & the fact that attack also affect her children & general public as well as 'rivals', & that they begin before mother is aware of 'ms daniels'

imo movie is about irrational nature of universe & emotions

[Raygun8189]

Great theory and seems to make perfect sense. I think you nailed it. I always wondered what the reason was, now I know. Good job.

[pressove]

This is the way I interpreted the movie my first time but I wasn't that sure from the way the birds attacked random villagers. The ending scene was magnificent!

[gamersw]

I didn't really like the movie the first couple of times I saw it. I kept thinking, "I thought this movie was about birds attacking people. What's all this other stuff? Birds!" But your explanation makes a lot of sense. I might appreciate the movie a lot more if I watch it again with this explanation in mind.

[transtremm]

Your analysis of brilliant! Many thanks for sharing your insight!

[tompuce84]

It was kind of brilliant, congrats (even though I do prefer you funny vids).