Do you want to accept it? Or is it self-determination proudly? Reagan chose the latter-I only accept the way I want to succeed.
"Birdman" can almost be said to be tailor-made for Reagan's actor Michael Keaton, who was the old Batman in 1989, and the famous character of Reagan in the play is a birdman with superpowers. Success and failure are also failures. The reputation brought by comic heroes has also become a burden. Whether it is Reagan in the play or Michael in reality, he failed to surpass the comic heroes he played in his subsequent acting career and had to face it. An unknown situation. I believe Michael can empathize with the anxiety and distress of Reagan's repeated battles and defeats in the play. Ushering in the peak of his career in the plastic suit, but choosing to resign in a subsequent sequel, we have no way of knowing the decision of Reagan or Michael. Maybe it is tired of business routines, or maybe it is the loss of personal acting career. On the surface, he refuses to wear plastic clothes and play the role of a superhero who saves the world, but the hero complex has already taken root in his heart. When Reagan is in desperation and feels helpless, the voice in his heart reminds him of his extraordinary side, and eventually he grows Spread out your wings, fly over the crowded city, and enjoy the freedom and pride of the birdman. The camera turns slightly, and the taxi driver chases after him and asks for the fare. How many people sigh involuntarily at this moment? Compared with the skinny reality, we would rather have a magic ending in the movie.
Except for Reagan's "middle-age crisis," everyone in the play is facing a truckload of problems of their own. A daughter who wants to help her father share the burden, but is at a loss as to what to do with each other; a little girl who is obsessed with gay pleasure through repeated trials of feelings; unruly by nature, familiar with the rules of rapid fame in the new era, but will also confide in her confusion on the rooftop The popular niche Mike; eager to become famous through Reagan's play, and moved to the rescue field of old love, but fell into the embarrassment caused by the other party; even the tramp who enthusiastically recites lines on the street, it is inevitable that Reagan onlookers will be right No. entered the play. Unexpectedly, the other party stepped into the play and asked about acting skills, a farce that seemed rather chaotic and ironic, and could hardly conceal the helpless reality that all beings are suffering.
Under the joint creation of the director and the photographer, the film is like a two-hour long shot, the scene switching and the angle of view are amazing. Critics are keen to talk about the "one mirror to the end" of the film, stringing together the joys, anger, sorrow and joy on and off the stage. After the film was released, there was no shortage of technical parties who came out to remind them that the seeming "one shot to the end" is actually composed of multiple long shots, and the longest shot does not exceed 15 minutes. They even used which scenes to edit and edit special effects. Hidden editing, accurate to the minute and second, inevitably some people suspect that the so-called "one shot to the end" is just a gimmick and dazzling technique of the film. However, it cannot be denied that we who follow the camera behind Reagan unconsciously have a sense of substituting with him, breathing and sharing fate with him. There were various conditions on the eve of the performance, and there were moments when I wanted to call him a "click". , It's a pity that there is no pause button in life, and there is no way to start over. Perhaps this is also a meaningful metaphor brought by narrative techniques and technical means.
"It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast." It is inevitable to think of Cui Jian's lyrics. For the media and audiences in the film, scripting, performance, and production are no longer the decisive factors on topics related to the film industry and theatrical industry. Instead, they are actor lace, performance highlights, and stage bursts. The video of Reagan accidentally walking out of the theater topless was frantically reposted by netizens, making it hard to find a ticket for the "bad drama that spoils good scripts" in the eyes of professional critics. All this, all the art we are talking about, is just an imagination. It may not even be imagined. It was not that Reagan did not understand that the future imagined in the past is not the present. After all, he is still a loser in the standards he holds. Whether it is a heroic complex or a gesture of refusal to entertain, and artistic quality are two different things.
In "What Are We Talking About When We Are Talking about Love", Raymond Carver said that we were thrown out of life and are preparing to start all over again. So Reagan chose to jump out of the window, which seemed to form a wonderful contrast with another line of Cui Jian's lyrics: "I don't want to leave, I don't want to exist, I don't want to live too much. I want to leave. , I want to exist, I want to start all over again after I die."
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