The Birds Film Analysis

Suspense is a major genre used in the most American pop culture movies. Alfred Hitchcock and James Mangold pioneered numerous movie techniques of building suspense in the films they direct. Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and Mangold’s Identity (2003) are movies that vividly exhibit the use of different film techniques in creating suspense. Both movies make use of various film techniques that aid in the attainment of a thrilling mood to the audience. Similar to The Birds (1963) is Identity (2003), which was directed by James Mangold in 2003 revolving around the life of ten people who seeks refuge in an isolated motel when a vicious storm breaks out in the desert of Nevada. As they seek refuge, a serious murderer, Taylor Vince awaits his execution

Hitchcock utilizes this aspect to show the impact of the birds on what is being said. In addition, Hitchcock uses camera movements in most iconic like in the climbing frame scene to show the viewers that the birds in the movie are inescapable (Hitchcock). Similarly, the film Identity utilizes camera narration to express different ideas in the film and to the aspect of suspense in the film. The film basically round-breathing with lots of enthusiasm. Camera rotates around characters and perhaps far ahead of the characters to create lots of suspension in the audience and around a sociological problem and most probably a very ugly relationship between the columnist and the publicist (Mangold 1).In identity, Mangold also uses camera techniques to create suspense. As the movie begins, the camera is moved farther from Alice who is ran over by Ed. After she is hit, the camera moves closer to focus on her in critical condition. This creates suspense to the audience, as it believes she the run over killed

This entails how Hitchcock manipulates what his audience perceives from the movie and what he delivers to the audience and the manner in which he delivers them. Filmmaker is able to manipulate the perception of his audience from what he gives them; he chooses what they see and what they do not want to see reminding them of their exclusion from that world and even the suspense. Like other, visual techniques, it is powerful the audience do not have to think about it to affect them. In the case of the film The Birds, the audience can easily perceive the coloring and lighting as of a calm situation (Hitchcock 1). However, the occurrences in the film are a manipulation of the viewers’ expectations.As epitomized by her character Lisa, Mangold’s most compelling moments in Identity are marked by ambivalence where the audience is placed in a state of two opposite direction at play (Mangold 1). Kaysen though not mentally insane, feels she is placed out of real world. Additionally, Mangold also manipulates the narrative perception by revealing the killer. Alice’s young son is shown to be the killer, which surprises the