The Birds Reply

I would like to provide an alternative reading on the love birds, as I kind of see the love birds as the ticking bomb in a sequel suspense movie. To what degree could humans domesticate the birds is largely unknown, and this sense of mysteriousness extends from the unknown cause of the attack. I really like Daiyao’s interpretation of the contrast between the “natural” and “exotic”, and maybe to further the interpretation, we can also look at the contrast between the “wild” and the “tamed”. Tracing back to the beginning of the film, when Melanie tried to let out a canary from its cage, she could not control the bird and then the bird was flying everywhere in the store. In the film, we have seen the danger coming from the birds in the wild, attacks coming from nowhere. Humans tried to find the patterns between the attacks, or categorize what birds are hostile. The bird cages could imply an enforced and involuntary entrapment that represses the birds inside. And we don’t really know the potential danger of opening up the cage.