The Birds Treatment

So the movie opens up with Birds flapping and flying pass the camera as the title hits the screen, the audience is curious, and nervous, cut to San Francisco, big city, but we concentrate on one woman, attractive, young, guys can't help but to wolf whistle as she walks on by, and she is flirty, she'll wink and smile right back. She is a fan of birds, so visits a pet shop weekly, in there this particular week she meets an eligible, single guy. Her attempts at flirting fail when he admits he knows her, he has heard about how she was recently “pushed” into a fountain “naked”. During the conversation Mitch (who is the love interest) brings up that it is his sisters birthday coming up and that she would love a species of bird known as “Lovebirds”. Our main protagonists, Melanie then takes it upon herself to purchase some Lovebirds and drive the 60 miles to where Mitch is living, a small fishing town. She follows a lead and meets the towns teacher, Annie. Annie gives Melanie information such as the sisters name and where they live. Melanie journeys there via boat to “sneak up” on the house, she lets herself in, drops of the birds and a note and journeys back. In the water however Mitch returns and spots her, he gives a playful chase in his car and awaits for her at the docks, as she approaches the docks though, a seagull swoops down and pecks her head, drawing blood. Wanting to help, Mitch takes Melanie to the local restaurant to clean her up, there we are introduced to Mitch's protective mother, Lydia, who takes an instant dislike to Melanie. Melanie still manages to get invited to dinner at Mitch's house. During conversation Melanie has to lie about why she is in town and says that she is staying with her good friend Annie. Annie does have a room for rent and agrees to Melanie stay, as Melanie is getting ready there is an ominous thud, when they investigate, they find that a seagull has flew into the front door and died. At dinner we are introduced to Mitch's little sister, Kathy, who takes an instant warmth to Melanie because of the gift, some more ominous things begins to happen during dinner, such as a phone call revealing that the towns chickens are acting up and not eating, not to mention that the birds are shown to be gathering more and more. Whilst back at Annie's we learn her back story involving her and Mitch. Mitch rings Melanie asking that she come to Kathy's birthday party. Even though it means staying another day, Melanie agrees. At the party birds suddenly flock down and start to attack the children, the adults round all the kids up and gets them to safety indoors, worried Lydia goes to check up on her father the next morning, she discovers him dead, his house is trashed, the birds have smashed their way through the windows and pecked his eyes out. In hysteria Lydia returns home and is put to bed, Melanie looks after Lydia while Mitch goes to the police, Lydia starts to voice her concerns about Kathy's safety. To put Lydia's mind at ease, Melanie heads out to the school, everything seems fine and quiet so Melanie takes a seat on a bench and begins to smoke, a crow lands behind Melanie, then another, and another and another until hundreds of crows are there. With help from Annie, Melanie begins to calmly escort the children out of the school, but the crows start to attack, horribly pecking at the children. At the restaurant, the word has got out about the attack at the school, the town folk are spooked, a mother and her two children are planning to leave town as is a smartly dressed man, a well educated elderly woman states that this is impossible, as birds don't have the intelligence to launch attacks, a drunk in the corner declares that it is gods punishment, and that it is the end of the world. Suddenly the birds attack again, this time it is a man filling up his car, this forces the man to drop the pump and leak petrol everywhere, the smartly dressed man is lighting a cig at the same time and ignites the petrol, the birds attack as people are fleeing from the fire in panic, Mitch saves Melanie and takes her to the hotel, in which they meet an hysterical woman who screams at Melanie and declares that this is all her fault, and that the birds only started to attack when she came into town, Melanie strikes the woman and then leaves with Mitch to go and find Kathy. Kathy is safe but Annie is found dead, Kathy says that Annie died protecting her. Mitch barricades his house to keep everyone safe but the birds attack and nearly get in, they suddenly stop attacking however which leads everyone to believe that they are save, for now. During the night, while everyone is sleeping, Melanie is woken up to noises, she goes to investigate, she finds the birds have broke through the attic roof and are waiting for her. She is viciously attacked and falls unconscious, Mitch and Lydia save her by dragging her out the room but it is clear she needs to get to a hospital. Mitch ventures outside which by now is covered with thousands of birds, he gets Melanies car and everyone drives away onto a unknown future.