The second best movie of place .....

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2016)

Polanski made the greatest movie of place - The Ghost Writer. Hitch made the second greatest movie of place - The Birds. Set in Bogeda Bay, a beautiful scenic island whose idyllic life is not too different from an American small town, the island is as much a character as anyone else in this film.
There are some great action set pieces. I liked the way the birds silently flew in and sat outside the school. Most directors of today would have made that into a loud action scene filled with fast cuts and weird camera angles. The second action scene at the bar/cafe was also terrific.
Tippi Herden had too much make up on. The relationship between her and Rod Taylor's mother was strange at best. Sussanne Pleshte's (she was smoking hot) character who stays back in Bogeda Bay to be close to Rod Taylor was also unusual. Hitchcock's films are often populated by these strange characters involved in some seriously weird relationships. Remember the wife in The Paradine Case who longs for her lawyer husband to save her sexual rival in court so that they can fight fairly over the man?