"Birdy" reflects on the bloody damage caused by this cruel war through the terrible conditions of the two protagonists, Birdy and Al. From the perspective of the narrative structure, the film adopts a circular narrative, telling the good times that are worth looking back before the war, the painful lessons that brought blood during the war and the painful time and space after the war. Time and space interlaced to show the conflict and the conflict between reality and ideals. Fusion. The film presents a brutal war with the warm life and cruel reality. Even if the scene of death is not seen, it uses cruel image language to "torture" the fragile and vulnerable hearts of the audience.
"Birdy" expresses the theme of opposition between freedom and imprisonment. From another perspective, it is "the obliteration of ideals by reality". After watching the movie, some viewers may not hesitate to define the director as a serious director. This is not an exaggeration. Because in the movie, the audience saw that the director had always maintained a decadent and negative desperate attitude towards real life, as well as a high yearning and expectation for freedom.
"Birdy" is an unusual anti-war theme. It tries its best to focus on the damage caused after the war, one is mental damage and the other is physical damage, just like the two male protagonists in the film have suffered. The double torment of mind and body may never return to the original life. At the end of the film, the audience is also told to face the reality bravely in the face of the hardships that must be experienced in life.
