seems that the French writer André Gide once quoted this sentence: "You have to work hard to enter the narrow gate. Because it leads to destruction, the gate is wide, and the road is large. , There are many people going in. To lead to immortality, the door is narrow, the road is small, and there are few people who find it."
In a sense, art is a narrow door, and entertainment that the general public loves is relative. The wide door, as an entertainer, after years of hard work, wants to be still concerned and loved by others, and wants to be immortal, then it seems a feasible way to switch from wide door to narrow door, but the way is It is feasible, but the real practice is not easy, and it is not easy. Mexican director Alessandro Gonzalez Inarrido tells the taste of it through his black comedy "Birdman". And it has caused a lot of constant thoughts and discussions.
Audiences who have watched "21 Grams", "The Tower of Babel" and other films will certainly be familiar with this talented director. Inarrido's films often have unquestionable charm from form to content. He often uses light and shadow. The ultimate realm that can be achieved to express his interesting ideas, making the presentation of his films both superb, profound and distinctive, with a very clear banner.
This "Birdman" is a profound work about experience, emotions, thoughts, human nature and culture. There is a lightness in the depth, which makes the whole work seem patchy, the lines are exquisite and humorous, and the rhythm is impressive. The suffocation, the dramatic tension in it makes the heartstrings tense, deconstructing drama and film, art and business, actor's career and life, reality and fiction layer by layer, and interweaving with each other, combing it very well. It is worth mentioning that the drama in the film will give people a contradictory experience of bitterness and smile, pain and pleasure when watching, full of toughness and intriguing. In addition, Lubezki’s photography is very good. The one-shot shooting method gives the film more layers of compelling reasons, but in the entire narrative, the long mirrors appear to be neither dazzling nor obtrusive, as if they are technique. An intimate communion with the content.
The once-anime hero "Birdman" Reagan Thompson in the film has now been photographed on the beach, and gradually faded out of people's vision. He tried to express his artistic aspirations through transformation. He is not just a Hollywood in shapewear. A product of the commercial assembly line, he tried to get people's attention, especially respect, by adapting, directing and performing the stage play "When We Talk About Love, What We Talk About" by Raymond Carver. It seems that in order to better analyze the complex mood of the protagonist, there have been many mirrors in the film, as if to reflect the mood and thoughts of the characters with mirror images, and analyze the spiritual level layer by layer.
As Bertolucci said, "Success can be a nightmare. When others always associate you with a certain title, a certain movie, or even a certain plot in the movie, all this changes. It’s a little nightmare.” Reagan Thompson’s nightmare seems to always be closely related to the Birdman he starred in. Almost all his fame and interests come from Birdman. Even today, older audiences can still recognize him. , Asked him for an autograph, and the label Birdman almost ruined his acting career. His acting image was fixed, and he lacked opportunities for breakthroughs and changes. This is extremely depressing for a person with acting demands. In the long-term entanglement and depression, Reagan Thompson almost magically transformed his own soul and another perspective.
The film also has a name called "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance", which seems to be more ironic and conforms to the meaning of the film. In the film, the female critic Tabitha Diggins represents people who advocate serious art, Twitter, anime heroes, entertainment topics, etc. represent popular culture, while Reagan Thompson represents the artistic attack of former anime heroes. Female critics have deep-rooted prejudices against animation heroes. She also despises the popularity of sensationalism at every turn. She hates the kind of people represented by Reagan Thompson, who lack cultural heritage and dare to get involved in real art without formal training. In her concept, the product of this kind of Hollywood commercial film is synonymous with ignorance, but after the performance of Reagan Thompson's "When We Talk About Love, What Are We Talking about", because it was soaked in so many complicated things, only Diggins, who is optimistic about things, also had to "like" euphemistically, which can be called "the unexpected beauty of ignorance".
Another very ironic part of the film is that Reagan Thompson, who wants to transform into a serious artistic path, doesn’t know what Twitter’s Reagan Thompson is. He didn’t expect that his crew will always have something that is enough to be popular on the Internet. Event, so this crew has no shortage of click-through rate, no lack of eye-catching, and the popularity of the drama has greatly increased. Even ordinary audiences are willing to grab high-priced tickets to see its style. Most of the jokes caused by the crew’s mistakes are on the list. Without the stage, the line in the film at this time, "No one cares about your philosophical plot and dialogue", seems particularly ironic.
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