Many years ago, a year-end acquaintance of mine often said that when a man really uses memories as fodder to comfort himself, he is not far from livestock.
The first time I heard "Birdman", I thought it was a remake of Cage's old film (Birdy). Nicholas Cage will play this stale superhero in this film, and he will play a show on Broadway openly. It was only after watching the film that the actor was Miachael Keaton, the former Batman who was completely buried in Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. But there is actually no difference between Keaton and Cage. Both he and Cage are old stars who have passed away. Basically it depends on the mentality. Or as the agent’s muttering in the movie: "It’s not the 90s anymore."
However, Reagan didn’t. He lowered his head, nestled in his office like a garbage dump in a meditation posture, and then imagined that he had been suspended in the air, as it was in the past. His fame as a superhero is like a birdman, possessing various abilities and the ability to break through the limitations of time and space; in his mind there appeared dead jellyfish on the beach of Malibu, and majestic unrealistic landscapes such as meteors across the sky, and then asked Asked himself: "Why did you get into this field? Nest in this garbage dump?" After a while, there was an interview with Downey as the Iron Man performer, the new favorite of this type of superhero, on TV.
One of the biggest pains of people is that they are too good to remember the past, and the other is that they are too sober and can always see where you are in this world.
I tend to define the motif of this movie as searching. It is an old man who has completely failed to find the last little meaning of his life. In the process, he and his family, theater company and Bainaohui The whole society outside the country is confronted. In the process of confrontation, another layer of his flesh, the winged superhero "Birdman" he once successfully played-now a more popular translation should be called "Flying Birdman"-with the heart demon or The image of the shadow reappears repeatedly, as a microcosm of the peak period of his life, relentlessly analyzing, deconstructing and satirizing his current stage. The more paradoxical thing is that when Reagan ran into the street wearing underwear and hurried back to the theater through the crowds surrounding Spiderman because of a bloody incident, the people who recognized him were shouting "birdman". , "Birdman", yes, in people's minds, the birdman is his physical body, and the ligenman is just the body in which the dying superhero lives.
This shell is also everywhere in the reality of Hollywood's vanity fair at this stage. They did not "defend" at the peak of their lives. They relied on superheroes to become famous, but they despised this popcorn culture deep down in their hearts and wanted to find real art. ; On the night of the wedding anniversary with his wife, he got on another actress and was caught and raped by his wife; the daughter who gave birth was cynical, came out of the drug rehabilitation center and stole marijuana. He was unwilling to abandon his daughter, but he was timid. Express. In the opinion of the eloquent critic in the film, these people are "celebrities" and not worthy of being called "actors", trying to use despicable performance art and comedy as real art. Like many humanities scholars in China today, she puts various labels on a work to make a conclusion. She pointed to Reagan's nose and said, "I want to end the kind of people you represent. A layman who has never received any training wants to get involved in the door of art and get you out of Bainaohui."
Reagan departed sadly after defending himself from the outside world. Prior to this, Reagan had already given all of his own for the show: he let the male number two quit due to injury in a nearly neurotic way, but by chance he invited the talented but more neurotic Mike (Norton), and Norton made the whole The rehearsal of the play was carried out in a maddening manner, and it also made Reagan exhausted; when the crew had no money, he found his wife and said that he would sell his last real estate for financing. The wife said, this is your stay. For his daughter; and his daughter yelled at him, saying that this way of brushing your presence is everywhere, Dad, you don’t have twitter, you don’t have Facebook, you are already dead, and the times have changed.
When the critics finally bluntly told me that I was going to ruin your night, that is, on the eve of the official performance of his arrogant play, Reagan broke down and spent $6.50 on the street to buy a bottle of whiskey and wear it. The idiot who had chanted "Macbeth" sat on the stairs and fell asleep. When he woke up, Birdman descended from the sky and turned New York into a battlefield like in "Avengers" with naked magical realism, and then told Reagan, you see, people like this now, we made a film of "Birdman". "Birdman: Phoenix Rises" (satiricizing Nolan's Batman). And Reagan finally became more determined. He looked at the crowd on the street and said, you never know my abilities, never know my ability, even if I mix like this, I will always be better than you and better than you. . I want to be your new God.
As a result, his hallucinations further escalated. He imagined that he would soar like a bird on the streets of New York, soaring into the sky, soaring freely. The world is under his wings, and he is a real superhero in the flesh of a human being, enters the pantheon of Olympus, and is worshipped by the world.
Just before the critics left the scene in a hurry, that is, rehearsing the last scene of the play many times, Reagan replaced the fake gun with a real gun and shot himself in the head. And when he woke up in the hospital by chance, the drama was a great success. He is already the new favorite of New World Media. The critic’s article is called "The Expected Virtue of Ignorance" (The Expected Virtue of Ignorance, ironically) , Praising Reagan for bringing new vitality to surrealism. Of course, this review is also a label throughout the "Time" review, which made this play a classic as soon as it was born. Thousands of people began to cheer for the new superhero, and media reporters gathered outside his ward as if recording Yao Beina's death. Reagan became a legend again.
At this time, the daughter finally gave him a bunch of flowers, which she frowned and said impatiently that she couldn't buy it at the beginning of the movie. However, at this moment Reagan had lost his nose and sense of smell. He went to the bathroom and stroked his fake nose, only to see the birdman sitting on the toilet on the toilet. The demon who had been with him for half his life finally remained silent and sighed softly. And Reagan's fake nose was raised high, like a hook prop when he played the birdman. The director's allegory here may be to say that Reagan has physically replaced the birdman in the superhero uniform.
It’s interesting to note that at the beginning of the movie, Carver’s "Late Fragment" was quoted as a wedge, "to call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth" as the caption, and Reagan infused his entire life. A drama, also called "When We Talk About Love" (When We Talk About Love). In the last scene of the drama, after seeing his wife commit adultery, Reagan repeatedly said that I do not exist, I do not exist, and then committed suicide. At the end of the movie, just as the audience thought the dust had settled and the ending was happy, the director, like Cage’s "Birdman," gave an unexpected ending: Reagan climbed out of the window and stood at the window. Seeing the pigeon skimming over the blue sky of New York like Shanghai in Wang Anyi's pen, he smiled slightly, jumped down, and left the world that had begun to worship him again.
The decisive irony at this moment will never compromise, and go further than in "Love is a bitch".
At this moment, he burned his feathers and gained new wings.
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