Hitchcock's 1963 classic 'The Birds' sparks decades of fan theories on the film's dark allegory for human-avian relations
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Hitchcock intentionally left the film's ending ambiguous, fueling endless speculation that the attacks were a symbolic 'revenge' for humanity's mistreatment of the natural world
The film's unsettling open-ended conclusion, with the main characters trapped in a house as the avian onslaught continues, has become a hallmark of Hitchcock's masterful ability to unsettle and disturb audiences