As an anti-war theme, it joins director Alan Parker's consistent thinking, the conflict between ideal and reality. Destroying beautiful dreams in the ruthless war years, describing the double damage that war brings to human beings both physically and psychologically.
And the two protagonists of this film happen to be representatives of romance and mundane, ideal and reality, Bird and Al.
As far as the setting is concerned, one is a somewhat withdrawn abnormal person who longs for an impossible dream to "fly", while the other is a playful person who loves to play, so that they play with completely different people, for the sake of Is to use Al to highlight the birdman, to express the theme of the film. For example, when Birdman and Al went up to the roof in bird suits, Birdman looked at the sky, while Al was looking at the restaurant and theater below. The birdman who was sitting next to the other girl had no interest in this aspect at all, showing a state of purity and no desire. And this difference is finally broken.
In the repeated persuasion of El, he was gradually influenced by the birdman, and his walking posture and behavior became more and more distorted. One is the physical dude's face, and the other is psychological, witnessing the beloved bird being mercilessly hurt. With the constant communication process and the influence of the surrounding environment on Al, Al's psychology has also changed at this time, from the physical damage he suffered due to the war to the influence of doctors and friends in the war environment on him. And become heart hurt. He understands the suffering of the birdman, so he can finally have a dialogue with the birdman. The director shows his critique of reality and his pursuit of an ideal world through the shaping of two characters. As an anti-war movie, it is also a novel point to tell it from the perspective of abnormal people, birds and people. War brings people not only physical damage, but also psychological damage.
Directors in Western countries like to use blue, because blue often represents freedom, melancholy, and can best express the heart of Birdman. At the beginning of the film, the birdman outside the window is shrouded in the blue light of the prison, which is the externalization of his spiritual world, but the devastated spirit still yearns for freedom and liberation. The overall tone of Birdman is mostly blue, while El and others are mostly black and white. Black and white represent realistic rationality. This plays the role of highlighting the contrast between cold and heat, romance and reality.
There are two main situations in which music appears in the film: the synchronization of sound and picture and the opposition between sound and picture, and the "Music of Birdman" in this film is more general and more expressive than the film itself. For example, the stark contrast between the chirping of birds and the sound of train wheels rubbing in the title leads to the contrast between romance and secularism, the contradiction between freedom and order, the core themes of the film. In terms of sound processing, Birdman is an unreal bird song, the voice-over of Al and others, and the voice of heaven, while Al's appearance is the noise of the hospital, the sound of elevator descending and other mechanical sounds, which can bring Al's character and the audience closer. A sense of distance, I feel that El is a member of ordinary life, thus creating a strong opposition to Birdman. In the recollection, Birdman's sound environment processing is more "quiet" than Elle, more of birdsong and soft and soothing music. This kind of processing can better show Birdman's character and peaceful psychological environment.
In the film, Birdman made three attempts to fly. For the first time, Birdman and Al wore "bird suits" and boarded the building to catch the bird and accidentally slipped. In order to express the thrill of falling, the director used a lot of shots taken from a large view to show the towering height of the factory building, and extended the process of "flying" through the switching shots of Al and Birdman during the fall, highlighting the Birdman For the first time, I accidentally experienced the feeling of flying, which paved the way for the second and third attempts of Birdman. If the first time was Birdman's joy for the first attempt to "fly", then the second time he landed in the stinky ditch with big wings on his back was the strangulation of ideals by reality. The junkyard and flying, the bulldozer in the junkyard and the frightened bird, the wings and the stinky gutter are all strong contrasts. In such an environment, in an era of war and chaos, it is like a fantasy to be liberated and realize freedom and ideals. And the third "fly" is also a fantasy. The objective lens is transformed into the subjective lens of the birdman, and the birdman's "out-of-body" is repeatedly shown. In the dream, he turned into a bird and finally achieved flight. , the seemingly tragedy is actually a bubble-like tragedy. At the end of the film, the birdman jumped down, and in Al's panic, the birdman did not "fly" but landed steadily. It seems to be a dramatic comedy, but it is actually a dramatic tragedy. Sky and earth, ideal and reality, maybe this birdman escaped from prison but is destined to be unable to escape reality.
The completely different processing of audio-visual language not only expresses the characters, but also embodies the living and spiritual states of two different people, one is pure and the other is mediocre, one is ideal and the other is secular, and the other is romantic and secular. Just when they finally realized the initial spiritual recognition, the film is over. The director uses an open ending to let the audience think about the ending of the two of them, and also to think about the relationship between ideal and reality, whether reality can tolerate it. Ideal? Or maybe the ending is not important, what is important is the mentality of the two people and the criticism of the actual war in the process.
The most brutally realistic stories are told in a romantic film. This is one of the most outstanding places in El Park.
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