Humanity In Alfred Hitcock's The Birds

In Alfred Hitcock’s The Birds, birds of all species all around the globe start to riot and spread havoc as they consistently begin to attack humans in flocks of waves. The theme of the film represents an act of revenge of nature towards humans due to our lack of morality to respect it and treat it as gentle and humble as it treats us. In the film it simply states that “millions of years of memory” stored in the birds' “little brains” have produced “this instinct to destroy mankind.” Hitchcock reflected this rationale when in a radio advertisement for the film he declared: “If you have ever eaten a turkey drumstick, caged a canary or gone duck hunting, The Birds will give you something to think about.” Presumably, this “something” is the possibility
Hitchcock's abovementioned statement clearly reflects a God not in relationship with humanity, a God that is not only distant but above and ultimately beyond humanity and creation. Such an understanding fails to recognize, for example, liberation theology's belief that we are called to be agents, conduits, of the loving and transformative presence and action of the sacred in the world; fails to recognize that the sacred infuses us and all creation and yearns to be realized through our actions. Belief in a distant deity to whom we beseech and are dependent upon for divine intervention can readily absolve us from hearing and responding to the call (and thus the risks) to be in relationship with an ultimately mysterious God (King and Woodyard 127). Frederick Nietzsche also has similar views on a distant god; he believes religion is what brought us down to our immoral acts of nature and made us lose sight of any spirituality within ourselves to, in turn, leads us to the spiritualization of hostility as seen when he states: “To be fair, it should be admitted, however, that on the ground out of which Christianity grew, the concept of the ‘spiritualization of passion’ could never have been formed. After all the first church, as is well known, fought against the ‘intelligent’ in favor of the ‘poor in spirit.’ How could one expect from it an intelligent war against passion? The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its ‘cure,’ is castratism” (qtd. Kaufmann