In "Birdman", there is also a drama critic from the perspective of God. While the cast mocks her for "turning to commentary because she doesn't have acting talent," she also puts on a steely face and vows to ruin the show with commentary. In the process of their quarrel, there was a kind of respect for the dramatic art itself. Some people perform, some people comment. There are access criteria and feedback on effects. This matter is not about right or wrong, but about the dignity of the industry. Actors and critics should have a respectful attitude towards the drama itself.
And the conscience of the industry in the film is full of metaphor and fantasy. A former superhero who created the box office miracle of anime movies and believed that he could really fly. After he became famous, he returned to the theater and pursued his obsession: the real stage art. He's an actor and a director, and he and the producers do almost everything they can to bring the audience into a world full of madness. People around this crazy world also have a kind of crazy magic. In order to realize the magic of drama, they do not hesitate to create accidents to get rid of incompetent actors, demanding the truth of props and logic. Although they are still the same as the resident guests of Vanity Fair as we know them in life, they will lie at will and will spare no effort to achieve their own success. But the director of the film is well-intentioned, all the madness revolves around one thing, these people can only exist when they are focused, and everything they do, just like the male protagonist's daughter said, "Everyone is brushing the sense of existence. ".
Presence seems to be synonymous with security here. The accumulation of critics' verbal and written criticism determines which plays should be staged on Broadway and which ones should be cut in half. The superhero hovers above the surface, the voice repeating, "You don't belong here". He fantasized about being able to fly, and in his drunkenness before the official premiere, he seemed to actually do it. Young actresses crave respect, and no one can match the admiration of "you're talented." In this madness, everyone is trying their best to pursue a sense of existence, hoping to be seen, affirmed, and satisfied by themselves.
Unfortunately, the crowd represented by drama critics are accustomed to "the labels in their heads as knowledge". The film director also knew that such a film devoted to expressing values and inner aspirations would be labeled as boring, incomprehensible, etc., so he used Birdman's admonition to present a story-less disaster and blasting the bridge of destruction that are common in blockbusters. Duan, it's quite ironic, those who understand it will laugh, and those who are attentive will probably swallow their teeth bitterly.
The play in the film is called "When We Talk About Love, What We Talk About". As soon as I heard the name, I knew that it was another kind of work that could not stand out in the noisy market, right? This is quite consistent with the idea that the film director wants to convey. Labels cannot be regarded as knowledge, except for big scenes, explosions, deafening, superheroes flying all over the sky, when everything is quiet, people still need to fill this shiny skin with dry goods. To think about yourself, to feel the wind and rain, and to understand that in addition to retweets and likes on Twitter and Facebook, this skeleton with flesh and blood plus gorgeous appearance configuration, still has to live a life with a real sense of existence.
Everyone in the movie is trying their best to experience the tactile sensation of being. The male protagonist's daughter uses drugs, the male protagonist finds his original biological impulse through the spotlight through his daily quarrel with Birdman and his pursuit of drama and fame. The character in the play, in the play, repeatedly questioned whether he really existed before ending it all. After that shot, the real blood passed through the pen of the drama critics and became the biggest selling point of Toutiao. Perhaps for the director, this is a realistic helplessness. You can't take the initiative to chase, and you can't take the initiative to end. The concept created by special effects is like everyone's life, no matter how sunny or rainy the outside world is, no matter how glamorous the world of different dimensions is, everyone's life has only one perspective, one road, one opportunity, all the way in the end.
"In my memory, why did that young man keep chasing..." When the
film came to an end, the melody of the song kept circling in my mind. A year before graduation, I bought a photocopy of the textbook "Honor" for the Beijing Film Film Analysis Course at school. Simply use printing paper as the cover, and print the two pages together on one A4 sheet of paper. Although I studied video production for TV, I was still inspired to read it. Film and television works show ordinary people the lives of extraordinary other people. In every 365-day routine that we cycle back and forth, probably everyone has a moment when they want to become someone else. Like the animated movie "Mary and Max" said: I want to be anybody but myself. So we choose the books and movies that we love, and in the visual miracle, in 2 hours, we become another person, love his love, and enjoy his happiness. The creator who made all these miracles is the great example in his heart, and he has made a firm vow that he must work hard to realize a dream in this life, to be a creator like a book, to create a visual world, to move himself and Others, according to their own rules of the game.
Then it became easier to make movies. It's purely commercial, and takes the Internet as the name of the movie, and just shoots it casually. It has become difficult to watch movies, the ticket price is kidnapped by 3D, the giant system means putting a lot of smoke and explosions, and a superhero fights all over the world just to fall in love. When everyone uses the labels funny and exciting to measure the value of a movie, "Bridman" came at just the right time. For students majoring in film and television, this is a scene scheduling that will take a few classes to carefully pull the film. It is about how you need to express so that your voice can be conveyed more clearly. Or for the academic judges, the two superhero actors raised a question, which is visually stimulating and touching in the heart, which one do you choose?
The hustle and bustle that people seek out suppresses the stillness necessary for independent thought. After a superhero's wings are removed, flight becomes a metaphor for everyone's self-fulfillment. After chasing the sense of existence that I really want, there is still a little literary regret at the end of the film. The protagonist played by Michael Keaton, after the gunshots he thought would end everything, exchanged real blood for the affirmation of the drama critics, the follow-up reports of the news, and the popularity on Twitter. Unfortunately, the exchange was still a label. His face was more Birdman-like due to the surgery, but he finally took off, and he did so happily. He is content with himself. Maybe because of the headlines and recognition, maybe because despite the hardships, he finally achieved something. presence.
The film opens with the words, "Have you found what you want?" Although Carver's place is because he is loved, it exists. But the whole movie made me feel even more that being able to be satisfied by myself, and being able to truly accept the affirmation from the outside world as a kind of contentment, is the sense of existence that can finally make human beings take off. That is not more important than food, clothing and shelter, but an indispensable element of life.
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