I am in Berlin now, since a couple of days, spending time in the company of @Mayb who is the first Steemian taking part in my Steemian documentary project. She and I are both very talkative. We manage to easily skip from one topic to another in the blink of an eye.
While she was making us a late breakfast this morning, we came to talk about her stomach ache, then changed to the expiration date on food. She told me she didn't think it was food that made her feel bad and that she wasn't afraid of eating anything (expired). A little later we talked about eating insects - something we would both like to do - and I mentioned there being so much insects that, if they would wanted to attack us 'humans', they could easily destroy us all. That led to Meike talking about birds attacking us and how she was intrigued by the intelligence of (certain) birds. They might actually be more intelligent than us. Which honestly wouldn't surprise me. There are so many stupid people.
I couldn't help myself asking Meike if she had seen (Alfred Hitchcock's) The Birds and she replied with:
Of course I have! Everyone has seen that movie.
Now that's what I call an exaggeration, but I'm sure many of you have seen this 1963 horror classic about birds that all of a sudden start attacking people.
I don't have any exciting personal story to tell about this particular movie except that this is - if I remember it well - one of the very first scary movies that I watched alone on TV, when my parents were away from home. I must have been pretty young back then (12 or so?) and the movie was already decades old. I enjoyed it a lot!
I usually talk about lesser known movies and there is already so much written on this classic - it is a classic after all ;>) - that I will keep it short.
Suffice to say that this film was extremely hard to make, it's the closest that Hitchcock has ever come to horror - besides Psycho (1960) - and it has this gloomy kind of almost post apocalyptic feel to it. But in the end, I guess, it's just an extremely well executed visual answer to an interesting What If ... question.
The Birds was based on a short story by author Daphne du Maurier who also wrote the story that was made into one of my very favorite films: Don't Look Now.
Are you one of the (few) people who haven't seen The Birds? then go give it a watch! Have you seen it? Any interesting stories to share on it? What is your view on birds attacking people?
Image Sources knife carrying bird,The Birds