"The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock

I have to admit that I did not find this film that interesting at all, I think the whole plot is quite weak and that it seems rather strange to make a story about "The Birds".

• Melanie Daniels who lives in San Francisco went to pick up a Mynan bird from a pet store.
• Mitchell Brenner a criminal lawyer knows Miss Daniels does not work at the pet shop but acts as if she does and asks about a bird he s interested in buying (love birds), he then gives in and says he knew she didnt work there and that she met her in court but Miss Daniels disagrees about ever meeting him before.
• After Mr Brenner left the shop, Miss Daniels wrote his license plate down and rung a friend to get some more information on him i.e where he lives and his full name.
• Miss Daniels ordered two love birds for him and went to deliver them as a surprise but to her dismay he was not there and a neighbour mentioned he goes to Bodega Bay every weekend.
• So Melanie drove up to Bodega Bay and stopped at a shop to ask where Mr. Brenner lives and what was his little girls name, she also asked if there was a different route she could drive as she wanted it to be a surprise, the man mentioned she could go to see Miss Annie Hayworth the school teacher and he could hire her a boat, so Melanie went to see Annie and she said her name was Cathy, she then came back and the man had hired her a boat.
• Melanie sailed over to the house and ran into the house when no one was there looking and left the birds and a card as a surprise, she ran back to the boat and sailed off and hide as Mr. Brenner went into the house saw the surprise and came running out looking for whom ever did it, he spotted her and got in his car to meet Melanie at the other side of the bay.
• Unfortunately as Melanie was sailing over a gull hit her on the head causing her to bleed quite a bit and feel dizzy, Mr Brenner helped her.
• Mr Mitch Brenner invited her to dinner for coming to all that trouble to drop the birds off, Mitch introduced Melanie to her mother Lydia whom did not seem keen on her, at the end of the evening Mitch insulted her about her wild days and she left in a huff!
• Lydia called Mr Brinkmeyers about the chickens she had bought as they won't seem to eat anything, he mentioned that Dan Fawsett's chickens wont eat either- maybe there ill.
• Melanie mentions she s staying with Annie who she went to school with but she was lying as she didn't want Mitch to know she came up just for him.
• Annie lets Melanie stay for the night and talks about Lydia as Annie moved to Bodega Bay for Mitch as they were an item but his father died 4 years ago and things went down from there it was too much. She mentioned that Lydia is afraid of losing her son and that he ll find love somewhere else, she does not want to be alone. Then a loud bang happens on Annie's door a seagull was dead on her porch on a full moon.
• Cathy loves Melanie so much for giving her the birds and wants her to come to her surprise birthday party.
• Lydia is un-keen on Melanie as she has been in her father's paper a lot about wild things and worries about Mitch and what he wants.
• Mitch called Melanie later on at Annies to apologise and begging her to come to Cathy's birthday party, she attends the part and Mitch and Melanie go to the top of a hill and talk and Melanie gets upset about her mother as Mitch has a mother who really cares , saying " my mother left me when I was 11 for a hotel man", Mitch apologises and they walk back down to the party but sadly another attack happens but the seagulls attack everyone, Mitch tries to get all the children in, after checking everyone they seem fine just a few scratched and cuts.
• After the party and Melanie stays for tea a sworm of birds come down the chimmy and attack Lydia, Cathy, Mitch and Melanie.
• The next morning Lydia goes to see Dan Fawsett about his chickens and to drop Cathy off to her dismay Lydia finds Mr Fawsett dead with the windows all broken in his house, dead birds everywhere and his eyes had been eaten.
• Later on Lydia was in such a distress, Mitch goes to see the detectives from Santa Rosa to give a statement. Lydia gets very upset when she realises Mitch has gone to Mr Fawsett and Melanie tries to help her by bringing her tea and saying she ll go pick Cathy up from school as she s worried about her.
• Sparrows and Seagulls surround the school and the children have to run all the way home being attacked.
• Mitch and Melanie go into a Mr Carter s cafe to call her father to let people know what is going on, a lady called Mrs Bundy says Ornithology is her avocation that that " Birds are not aggressive creatures miss, they bring beauty into the world, it is man kind rather who insists upon making it difficult for life to exist upon the planet".
• A man in the cafe shouts out "ITS THE END OF THE WORLD- EZEKIEL CHAPTER 6", a woman then talks about another chapter called ISARAH chapter 5.
• A man called Mr Shole and Melanie imply there is a war but Mrs Bunday says "why would birds attack now 140 million years ago they were here, why would they go against humanity now". A woman in the cafe gets stressed and says could people lower there voices as its scaring the children.
• Mrs Bunday says "there are 8,650 species today, 5,750,000,000 birds live in the United States and the 5 continents contain 100 billion birds each, birds of different species do not flock together".
• The birds attack again as a man is filling his car with petrol causing him to be knocked out and the petrol to leak all over the floor, a man lights a cigar and its too late for the people to say anything they did shout over but an explosion had happened in seconds.
• Everyone panicked and ran off, Melanie trapped herself in a telephone box, most people managed to get back into the cafe, the woman who asked people to keep it down as its scaring the children then starts blaming Melanie saying " this all started when you got here, you're evil", Melanie slaps her and she stops.
• Mitch and Melanie go to find Cathy but Annie is dead on her porch, they get Cathy from the house and go home, Mitch boards the house up as much as possible but the birds attack again and he hurts his arm.
• Mitch puts the radio on and they only mentions there s been bird attacks but not that any help was coming! Mitch was so angry.
• Melanie hears a fluttering noise, she does not want to wake anyone and goes up stairs, she opens a door where the roof had been eaten away and the birds attack her, Mitch and Lydia find her nearly dead and say they need to take her to a hospital
• Mitch goes to Melanie s car to see if theres any news on the radio, he goes very quickly as its covered with birds.
• Mitch manages to get Melanie, Lydia and Cathy in the car with the love birds and Melanie grabs Lydia tightly and looks at her like a mother and Lydia accepts.