Disillusioned youth when waking up from dream

Leonard 2022-01-11 08:02:52

I smiled when I saw the last shot. I'm thinking that even if many people don't understand what this movie is about, it's worth just having a smile at the end.

Of course, Alan Parker is definitely not using two hours to prepare a joke, the joke laughs, and the images and metaphors of this movie are unforgettable for a long time after watching the film. Because the youth of each of us is the flying bird from a subjective perspective, flapping its wings, struggling between dreams and reality...

When Cage left birdy to join the army, the bird was flying The last hit the glass, the youth in dreams and the youth in reality are separated from then on, and in the face of the most powerful and destructive reality of "war", youth is in the two of "dream" and "reality". The vice-face is aphasia in idealistic autism and the other is hysterical under the fire of realism. When the two meet again, the dead youth can hardly heal those wings. The desire to fly is not to be trapped in the cage of reality, but to struggle with the hoarse cry of reality. In the end, it is also the “last” of each of us’s youth. The dream wakes up after reality hits the edge of almost collapse, and is ruined in reality together with youth.

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  • Elza 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    birdy himself is a mentally handicapped man, and then turned into a lunatic during the war. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the war. I'm about to die of anger when a big man plays with birds all day long!

  • Allen 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    A deeply thought-provoking and very emotional film.

Birdy quotes

  • Doctor Weiss: You mean the spitting?

    Sergeant Al Columbato: Yes.

    Doctor Weiss: The army left a bad taste in his mouth.

  • Birdy: The dream is as real to me now as my waking life. I don't know where one begins and the other ends. I wish I could tell Al, but I'm afraid to. In my dreams, nothing holds me down. Everything's out and away. There's nothing in my life to keep me here anymore. I wish I could die and be born again as a bird.