Beats me….I’ve always thought it was way scarier as a totally irrational horror film about nature and film style gone berserk.
When the birds attack the woman, it almost seems like a rape…
though guilt and culpability feature a lot in hitch’s cinema, i dont see it so much here. but theres almost always interesting and offbeat depictions of sexuality and sexual relationships in his films. in “the birds”, its between the son and the mother.
Leonardo Barrientos
Why is this film considered as another step in the hitchcockian vision of guilt and sexual repression?