Note how the picture is bookended by
shots of the ocean, the first of Molly and her charges on a threatening beach (crepuscular, somehow, in its natural lighting) and the
last of Molly sailing away into a
haunted, bird - infested horizon: an illustration, perhaps, of the alternative to Tippi Hedren's domesticization at the end of The Birds — of the re-assimilation of the feminine destructive energy into the long reach of a symbolic sea.