the birds

The classic thriller 'The Birds' tells of a wealthy woman named Melanie Daniel's who follows a potential love interest to his home town in Northern California where lawyer Mitch brenner spends most of his weekends with his mother and younger sibling. which comes under an attack of vicious birds soon after her arrival.killing and maiming residents and forcing them to hide inside boarded up home.A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbour dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this is happening survival becomes a priority.

The Birds directed by Hitchcock shows a variety of  elements of the thriller genre.  the opening includes a usual every day situation which would happen in real life as main character goes to the pet shop to pick up a previously bought bird which seems like a normal thing for someone to do. A  peculiar  man comes in to buy a bird but his intentions wasn't really to buy the bird which raises questions to the audience,which is a convention of the thriller genre and gets them involved. When the woman takes 2 love birds to An enigma is introduced when the woman buys two love birds and takes them to the man’s apartment this is when an enigma is presented.The fact there is no is no soundtrack in the opening sequence shows that this thriller is different and eliminate itself from other thrillers as this is seen as the un norm as usually thriller always have non diegetic or diegetic music to enhance the thrill of the movie. This will make more suspense in the film due to the fact that you never know when something bad is going to happen are there is no clues which makes the thriller more exciting to watch as it keeps you on the edge of your seat at all times.