“The World of The Birds is not loveless, like the world of Psycho,” William Rothman rightly notes. “Nor does love fall victim, as in Vertigo, to a villain’s sinister machinations. In The Birds, there are no villains. All the characters are presented with sympathy. The birds kill but they are not murderers” (Rothman 351/qtd in Pomerance 118). This is one interpretation. And if we go with this it is actually an anomaly of the Hitchcockian cardinal rule. But from my point of view The Birds (1963) on the other hand presents human beings as the unseen or hidden villain pitted against the birds. When the film opens we can see caged birds in a pet shop, restricting their movements by human beings. Mitch Brenner and Melanie Daniels the leading
