It could be that the bird attacks were symbolic of the way any unwelcome outsider would be treated.Curiously, the first attack has symbolic phallic undertones - it occurs when the man and woman approach toward each other outside he restaurant in the coastal town.Mark: He""s not hurting anyone.Ann: Neither are we.Ann: Oh God! Every time I see one of those old guys, I-I always think he same thing.Mark: What do you think?Ann: I always think that he was once somebody""s baby boy...and he had a mother and a father who loved him.And now, there he is, half-dead on a park bench and where is his mother or his father or his uncles now? Anyway, that""s what I always think."When locked up for the night with the other humans, Leo picked the lock with a stolen knife and escaped from the cage, and also freed the others.When he brought Ron to view the mirror, Ron only saw himself as "head boy...holding the Quidditch Cup" as he captain.Rather than showing the future, the mirror displayed what the viewer most desperately wanted.According to Dumbledore, it reflected "the deepest and most desperate desires of our hearts".He had found Harry addicted to the Mirror""s visions of loving family life.He warned it could become destructive - and therefore it had to be removed ("It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live").BackgroundOn he Waterfront(1954) is a classic, award-winning, controversial film directed by Elia Kazan - a part drama and part gangster film.