Old man's battlefield

Kasandra 2022-03-21 09:01:09

There are always some old men sitting in the dinners that have been participating in these years, and they start to listen to those great achievements and experiences that they will never reach. After a few rounds, no matter how bizarre these words are modified again, they also exude a disgusting smell with the smell of toilets. Look. With a few strands of stubborn hair hanging on their half-bald foreheads, they gave birth to a kind of compassionate mood of "seeing him getting up from Zhulou, seeing his banquet guests, seeing his building collapsed", and did not expect to turn around. The same applies when sitting in the master position.
But this kind of dinner is still going on. Occasionally, in the second half of mourning, a silent older brother who was shrinking in the corner would cry out in anger, saying that he resigned, wandered, and ate and drank, but he never forgot his original intention to pursue uncertainty. s things. Under the turbid sympathetic gaze, his eyes exuded a brief brilliance, which flashed and disappeared.

On the surface, "Birdman" is telling the story of an old man who didn't want to die on the beach.
For director Gonzalez, the origin of creation may still be his consistent "fighter father" complex plus his own experience. I remember that I read the introduction to him last year. My father went bankrupt as a wealthy banker and became a vegetable supplier again. This ups and down experience is probably the same as the Qinxi public at the time, and it also created his western style." The grass snake gray line, the veins are thousands of miles." His films always set obstacles to himself and the audience in terms of form and plot. They are cut and spliced. It seems difficult to end. However, once the key is cleared, people with different purposes can find what they want in the film— —Thinkers see philosophy, practitioners see skills, doubters see thinking, readers see stories, dreamers see the surreal, and bored people see the fun of survival.
From the content point of view, I had to fight for the use of Carver's works in the film (he even used a handwritten note to play a supporting actor in time and space). Carver’s works were sweaty at the beginning of the year, but he was still confused about the benefits. From the interpretation of "Birdman", the authenticity advertised in his works confuses the boundary between creation and life, and confuses the author and the author. The clear division of readers has created an unparalleled sense of drama. This is so much better than the atmosphere that the whole film wants to create.
Although the director's name is extremely difficult to remember, if you don't love anything from "21 Grams" to "The Tower of Babel" to "Birdman", don't go to the movies with your head.

With the lens that looked like a first-person point of view in the game swaying to the end, I couldn't help but start thinking wildly.
The male protagonist has the former movie star superhero Birdman actor Uncle Reagan who has his head scratching life situation, Birdman who has been strengthened into the entity "Mephistopheles" and alienated Uncle Reagan's behavior by the way, and the drama male protagonist Uncle Reagan who moved to the Broadway stage. Version 2.0 The image of the three-body unity seems to have a natural connection with the once popular concepts of self, id, and superego. Smile if you feel the same.
From the perspective of self-realization, being a man is not easy. Women are easily materialized and then materialized by themselves. On the contrary, they have a wider living space and a small solid sense of existence. As the opposite, men always have the desire to manipulate things. They hope to build a small universe that revolves around them, hoping to become the sun that has a decisive influence on others. However, the cruel thing is that men and women are in the same time thread. An old woman can move behind the scenes when she sighs that life is perishable or the charm is still there. An old man is reduced to a situation where it is not even worth talking about money. There is no way to retreat, falling into the despair of declining power.
The birdman in the movie is actually such a conceptual anti-superhero. His source is of course Icarus in Greek mythology. He was born in shackles with his father’s great reputation and original sin, but he was born in the only flight in his life. The wings were roasted by the sun and fell. This image is transferred to a superhero and then placed on an old man living in the present moment, which produces a huge deviation. The magnificent beauty brought by the tragic heroism of rushing to the sun with a mortal destiny has turned into not taking medicine on time. The realism caused by the burden.
Uncle Li Gen in the play actually tried two solutions at the same time. One was to use exaggerated dramatic performance to cater to the tastes of the public to find a sense of topic again, and the other was to split the real Superhero from the center of ignoring others by inner alienation. However, the result is that the focus of public attention is becoming more and more superficial and short-lived, and Superhero is sitting on the toilet of a real Chinese medicine hospital. The old man's last battle ended here. He did not complete the redemption that was originally unknown, but he never "disqualified". The moment he stepped on the window sill, he was even a little touched by the unshaven legs, knotted hair, and wrinkled hair sets. He once had wings. After the super power of manipulating the world in his pants was worn away by time, he finally had a leap in the end. Underpinning.
After all, in the time of Icarus, such people were not called lunatics, but called gods.

At the end of the film, the daughter’s gaze turned to the sky was a bit hollow, and seemed to have a great joy of relief. It reminded people of the sincere beliefs in the era of witchcraft and miracles, and remembered those in the endless book "Golden Branches." The tradition of killing kings of gods. There are several examples in Tibet and other places mentioned in "Golden Branch". A man is selected to become the supreme ruler, dominating everything in a short period of time, and taking life and death. However, once the "limitation" has passed, he will be cruel. The way of treatment pushes towards death. If he survives by chance, he will regain a short-term reign after a year of wasting. This kind of program with a sense of horror and reincarnation seems to be the decline and withering that will inevitably face after the maturity of the confrontation.
The men’s roller coaster fate in Birdman is so similar to these examples.
As an actor, Uncle Li Gen and his birdman used a dramatic way to greet the golden branch thrown at the man like a god and king in the history books. It was the last ceremonial splendor, and it also brought the end of death through the body. .

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