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Up with Birds!

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It’s 6:23am. The sun isn’t yet up, but a cacophony of birdsong gently rouses me from my slumber, providing a delightfully non-digital notification that the day is indeed beginning. Also, the film refuses to answer why the birds go nuts, and while I don't think it's necessary that the film answer this question, the film's steadfast apathy for wherefores got overbearing when a character asked why for the fourth or fifth time. Up With The Birds is such an underrated song. Despite it being an absolutely solid song on an album overlooked by way too many people, the simplicity and rawness took the band to a place we hadn't seen in a while. I hardly ever tear up to music, even ones that remind me of someone, or are otherwise just powerful, but Up With The Birds was one of the first songs by Coldplay to genuinely make me go past my comfort zone and just cry to a piece of theirs. A few years ago I lived a mere ten minute walk away, yet the call of creation was different there. More kookaburras, certainly. Seagulls, too. But also, more traffic (generally from as early as 5:00am, nearly sufficient to drown out the morning birdsong)! It’s quieter here, in Tara Drive on Bunarong land . I am grateful for the peace of it. And the bird life that this particular ecosystem sustains. The film is plenty well-developed, with its characters, and its settings, and even its themes, but not with, of all things, it's conflict, for although I can understand the ambiguity behind the birds' mania, and although they attempt explanations way late into the body of the film, it's hard to get all that invested in a conflict so underdeveloped. Well, the conflict at least seems underdeveloped, compared to the other aspects of this narrative, whose build-up segment runs for way, way too long, until it begins to feel aimless, just as the relatively tighter body gets to be draggy itself. Running two hours in length, the film is simply too long, and that's perhaps my biggest problem with it, as the film is all too often all too meandering to be all that engaging, and would be more compelling during its lulls in conflict if it was more genuine. The script is decent, but it holds problems extending beyond the uneven pacing, particularly within its dramatics, as the personal character conflicts feel a touch too Hollywood in their being histrionic, and working to manufacture some depth to a story of limited weight. Alas, screenwriter Evan Hunter can't quite overshadow the limitations in depth within this Hollywood thriller, which are all but overpowered by inspiration to storytelling, sure, but don't do a whole lot at all, much less anything all that uniquely. The film wasn't especially refreshing even for its time, no matter, how much it tried, at least at times, when it wasn't getting too lazy, if not overblown with its exposition and conflicts to truly reward. The film is kind of underwhelming, but it's not as underwhelming as I feared it might be, being bland in more than a few areas, but effective enough in others to impress just fine, particularly on a technical level.

An hour later all is relatively quiet, except for the call of a pair of turtle doves, hardly distinguishable with the noisy late winter rains now falling more heavily upon the trees and upon the earth. As much as I prefer the warmth and brightness of a sunny day, I am learning to also love the rain: it supports the thriving of all that grows in my garden, including veggies, herbs, flowers (and yes – weeds too)! In an interview, Chris Martin told Music Week that the song was made "when we were sort of thinking about a story that seemed like the end of a movie type thing." [1]

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