Nature Always Wins

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2005)

Not only is this a great film (Hitchcock's best), but what a great example of the kind of repercussions that await us if man doesn't stop waging war on the environment. How much is Mother Earth supposed to take before she decides it's time to fight back. When it comes down to Man vs. Nature, Nature always wins! In the film, the lovebirds are caged rather than free to live in nature, and Zeke, the fishing boat captain, tells of how his crew had to drive off the birds trying to eat the fish they caught (as man again tries to keep the bounty of nature all to himself). We should all come away from this film both wiser and more sympathetic to the wanton destruction we have unjustifiably perpetrated on our environment.