The main line of Inarido's film is guided by two contradictory philosophical themes: self-compromising to society, and self-resistance and transcendence to society. And these two themes are displayed in a highly contradictory way of expressing irony with the passage of time in the film.
When Sam (his daughter) hysterically told his father that he was just a rich man after a meal, joking and talking about nothing, yet he tried to get affirmed by others’ applause, he was distraught and fantasized about it. Pull your fingers to make the lighter turn in a circle; when a passerby hangs on the work frame and recites the end of "MacBeth" (out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow... and is heard no more), the viewer seems to have seen an ambition swallowed by a gasp movie star making the last gasp (the last gasp) but having to surrender to reality and despair, but on the second day of sleeping on the street, he was absurd. He surpassed the gravitational limit and flew over New York (although he did not fly, but came to the theater with a Cab); when he finally pulled the pistol and the viewers thought he had ended his life, he almost Lying on the hospital bed unscathed again. Riggan's vitality is so tenacious, and his dark side (the representative embodiment of the unfinished will, that is, the birdman) is so paranoid and crazy, coupled with the perfect scene design and editing almost limit him to his room and stage and his vision is limited. But tireless, quite breathless, is also one of the many important reasons for the success of the film.
In fact, contact the three recent good movies, namely Riggan in this film, Amy in Gone Girl, and Andrew in Whiplash. They have one feature in common, that is, "stagnancy"-this may also be the case. A microcosm of the real society, exponentially increasing social welfare is also exponentially increasing the social division of labor, and in any field, if you are not strong enough (or your own existence depends on the appreciation and recognition of others), it is difficult to fail A kind of hysterical stubbornness pushes the talented self to the limit of its potential. Contemporary alienation is not so much the exploitation of labor by capitalists as it is a closely connected society (which is partly stronger due to the existence of the Internet) A deep challenge to the individual’s sense of existence. Celebrities are craftsmen, but people who cannot see through can never see through. From beginning to end, they will always live in the world and evaluation of others, but they don’t know that what others see is always the illusion that others impose their will. You (the sentence posted on the Riggan mirror: A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing; on the contrary, people who can’t see through will pursue a non-self illusory realization in an extremely ego method- -Maybe it should be used to strengthen self-knowledge and see that the power of self-resistance to the impact of exogenous evaluation is exhausted to pursue an existence that is not one's own, and finally live completely in the world of others. This was mentioned by Rousseau a long time ago However, he admires the primitive men and thinks that they are the most civilized group. Riggon’s actor said that she wanted to come to Broadway all her life, since she was a child; and it was only when she first performed on Broadway that she realized that she was just a child and needed to be affirmed. The director spoke of Riggan's tragedy through the words of the actress.
As for the end of the film, is he dead? If there is a definite answer, the film will immediately be downgraded countless. Self-resistance to society is still intertwined with self-compromising to society, which is inextricably intertwined. Since the birth of Birdman, Riggan has died. At the moment when people are about to die, Riggan has thought about the time with his ex-wife and daughter "returning to the yellow dog and chasing the cunning rabbit", and regrets the opportunity and the future of "live in the present"; however, a weak life can't even control himself. The fate of illusion, the illusory expression and the plague of fantasy finally exchanged for the ridiculous evaluation of "Super-Real", the real and the illusion are intertwined: "When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and the inaction is true and there is no place."
A person lives forever and lives between the two poles of idealism and materialism: when pursuing one's own value and realizing one's own happiness, it is impossible to be uninfluenced by the outside world, the people around him, and the material world. It will often explode at the moment when the will of others is about to be completely compromised. The amazing individual energy makes an effective accusation against the seemingly helpless fate. Simple black and white images may only exist in simple models. As Weber saw, the environment affects individuals, and individuals also have an impact on the environment. From a system perspective, if there is input, there must be output, and if there is an effect, there must be feedback. The principle of the projection phenomenon does not change with the beginning and end of life, and life as free will does not always add beauty or disappear with the presence or absence of the breath.
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