It is no exaggeration to say that the whole film had a great attraction for me from the very beginning, until the last minute, and the moment at the end was so heartwarming. After reading it, a question lingered in my mind, how much of a person's existence is shaped by himself and how much is shaped by others?
I don't know why I feel so deeply, so excited that I want to cry. Maybe it's because the sense of self-substitution is too strong. I always feel that this kind of story, what it wants to convey, resonates with me a lot.
The protagonist always wants to find himself, but he bears the glory of the past, the expectations given to him by others (audience, fans), and the shackles given by critics. So even if you lose your nose at the end of the film, the agent can say without hesitation that I will give you whatever nose you want, and even the body itself can be placed by others. Often more concerned about yourself, not even give you a shit. He once played the role of Birdman, which became famous and received great praise, thus gaining a very high self-affirmation, but as the years went by, he also sank. He wants to be a good theater director, he has a work of his own, he needs to be recognized by everyone again, so this is why after the first preview, he will be angry with Mike who covered his light, and at the same time, he was also angry with himself. Deeper questioning and anger. He is ego, he is proud, but his affirmation does not come entirely from ego, which is a very contradictory relationship.
There are two scenes in the film that touched me the most.
One is that the hero's daughter told him about the habit she had acquired at the request of the teacher in the drug rehab center, and drew vertical lines on a tissue, each vertical line represented 3000 years, and a palm-sized tissue represented all the Light-years of human beings, and the entire human race will be destroyed once rubbed. She said it made her realize how small she was. Yes, unlike the male protagonist, she has been trying to make herself transparent because it saves her some guilt for the mistakes she has made. She is not self, she is very humble, but she has a special shining point, and she is affirming and tolerant of herself deep in her heart.
The second is that the last male protagonist came to the window sill after being rescued by suicide. The next scene cuts to the daughter who hurried back to the ward but could not find her father and became increasingly anxious. After searching everywhere, she came to the scene in disbelief. When she got to the window sill, she was about to face her father who might have fallen from a high-rise building, but she raised her head and looked up, as if she had seen something, then smiled gratified, and then the screen turned black, and the whole play ended. In fact, what the director left behind is an unsolved ending. Maybe the protagonist still fell to his death in the end, thus expressing that people can never break free from the shackles of others and truly gain the freedom of the self, but in my opinion, the death of the male protagonist It doesn't matter whether he is or not, he is still free in the end, after a destruction. There are many scenes of the male protagonist flying in the sky, but they all rely on the image of bird man. But in the end, his flight disappeared, no longer relying on the image created by any outsider, he flew up, disappeared in the sky, and found his most comfortable way.
In fact, the relationship between the self and others has been a problem of great concern to philosophers and psychologists since ancient times. Whether it is the legend of ancient Egypt or Freud's theory of the ego and superego, they are trying to solve this problem. The problem, but the reality is that no matter how thoroughly you see this issue, humans are social animals. How to be comfortable in such a world full of "others" may really depend on the experience of time. At least for now, At least myself, still in a dazed stage.
Going back to the film itself, both the long takes and the storytelling are fantastic, needless to say. The most important thing is that I only remember that I was very excited after watching this film for a long time, and felt that some very secret things in my heart were finally dug out.
Yes, I often wonder if I really exist, how much of my existence is shaped by myself and how much others have shaped it? I also don't know how to deal with the demands of others, and how to live freely and freely.
In my understanding, the director's attitude is very simple,
under normal circumstances,
You are nothing. You don't even exist.
Even so,
You are who you are.
And how long should it take me to really See the attitude conveyed in this film.
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