After reading "Birdman", I can’t help shouting, that the magic and absurd expression methods are quite easy to deal with the paradoxes and dilemmas of modernity. It is cunning, sober, and full of aura, but After waking up from the intoxication of art, everyone knows that this is after all a joke based on reality.
In fact, the essence of "Birdman" is the author's introspection (or self-satisfaction), but this introspection is not like the Chekovian chatter in Ceylon's "Hibernation" this year. His expression should be more novel and fresh. Live, Gonzalez used a literary style of expression full of vitality to boldly reform the expression of the lens, and ruthlessly peeled off the only fig leaf between modern art and commerce, in the confrontation between reality and drama. In the fusion, a very imaginative satire full of introspection was realized.
The bold and innovative way of expression in "Birdman" makes the movie full of aura. This counter-mainstream temperament is consistent with the thinking presented in the movie. Specific to the role in the movie, the role played by Keaton has a strong representative. Sex, he has an anti-mainstream and anti-consumer temperament. He thinks that his early sales of billions of junk movies around the world is not as good as the current 800-person impoverished stage show. He has artistic ambitions, but In his early years, he benefited from the self-expansion and popularity of consumer culture, but he became a lifelong magic shadow. It is both a stumbling block and a concrete expression of potential introspection. He is eager to be recognized by art, but inwardly, it is difficult to let go of the satisfaction brought by the sense of existence. All he does is to find his own sense of existence, but the self-worth in the real situation has not been greatly obtained. He’s recognition, the sense of existence is very weak, but the early social recognition is not what he wants, although this kind of popularness that he rejects on the surface has given him inflated satisfaction. Struggling desperately in self-worth and social recognition, magicalism shines.
The word Popular originally meant popular, but Keaton’s superego realized value was based on his extremely lonely self. Sam smoked marijuana and quarreled with his father’s unintentional remarks, which basically explained the existence of modern public perception. It came out that this existence based on perception has been evolved in modern information and communication to become very deformed. It can even be strong enough to establish another non-self will, and this confrontation of wills based on extremes is probably also It can only be a blockbuster under the hand of magical realism. The complex philosophical topic of existence appears in the film in the form of duality. In the film, the struggle between self-will and non-self will evolve from the struggle between self-worth and public identity, both The relationship in the movie appears in the form of confrontation between drama and reality, but in the second half of the story, this confrontation slowly evolved into an unsolvable symbiosis state under the hand of magic, so Birdman really became possible. The soaring birdman. In the latter part of the movie, Keaton sleeps on the street after being drunk. One will climb to the top of the building and fly over the city and fly back to the theater, and the other will take a taxi back to the theater. After all, it is the paradox of modernity. At this moment, he has come to the conclusion. The answer is completely incomprehensible. The obvious boundary between the two confrontations has been lost, but the greater self-will still urges him to return to the theater. The final answer to the answer, if the movie stops abruptly here, the overall effect will be greatly reduced, because such a death is really a cowardly escape, so the birdman will not die, and the will is difficult to eliminate, and eventually he will not die. Keaton has gained huge social recognition in this sacrificial performance, and the sense of drama has got a bigger breakthrough, but the paradox is still there, and the stubborn illness is hard to get rid of. At this time, Keaton, who was lying on the hospital bed, was wrapped in a medical bandage that looked a bit like a bird's beak. This obscure stroke is really a classic. The non-self will not go away under the shape of social identity, and the self-realization of personal value. The will is still there, so the birdman looked at the free bird outside the window, jumped out of the window, and soared into the city under the gaze of his daughter. At this moment, the expression of magicalism brought us a scene of artistic ascension.
Gonzalez deliberately abandoned the narrative complexity when dealing with this film, but spent a lot of time on the extension of space. In the shooting of the theater backstage, stage, streets, squares and other environments, a large number of seamless was used. The long-shot connection of these inconsistent spaces, the constriction, division, emptiness, and alienation brought about by these inconsistent spaces brings corresponding malleability to the movie characters’ hearts. With this chaotic drumbeat, from the cramped backstage to the divided stage, from From the crowded square to the empty city sky, the long lens wanders unscrupulously, silently in the presence of drama and reality, opposition and symbiosis, which greatly weakens the industrial nature of the film. This slightly innovative way of expression fits the film. Surreal temperament, full of aura.
The irony and introspection in "Birdman" are obvious. The struggle of duality in the film is deeply rooted in modernity. There is never an answer to the unsolvable paradox, the confrontation of value, existence and nothingness. Fortunately, they can get the ultimate ascension in the form of art, because art does not need an answer.
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