After watching Akira Kurosawa's "The Desire of Life", you will feel that the most terrible thing in life is not having a sense of existence, but after watching "Birdman", you will know that the most terrible thing in life is that after gaining a supreme sense of existence, After all, a return to mediocrity is optional. Before you take your last breath, you will struggle and torture yourself all day long in the glory of the past and the ruthlessness of reality. This is the true portrayal of Birdman.
Birdman is unfortunate. When he reaches middle age, his career declines. The huge gap in life has made him feel enough frustration, but he does not even have a home to live in. Facing his wife who has left him, he is always on the fringes of society. His daughter, he felt powerless and could only be exiled, just like his irreversible acting career. Birdman is proud again. He will not lick his wounds in the corners, nor will he cry in front of others. He chooses to fight, choose to fight, bet all his belongings, invest in a brand new stage play, and plan to let go. Give it a try.
The whole film upholds the proud quality of Birdman. Although it is telling a sad story, it refuses to show any pity and sadness. The suffocating drum beats appear at every moment when the will burns. It seems to symbolize anger and ambition, but it always makes people feel a strong sense of compulsion. The continuous long shots, in the narrow backstage passage, turn left and right. , the visual flow is unobstructed, and the suffocation after shortness of breath cannot be covered up... All of this is due to the consequences of unwillingness to bow to reality. The more you resist, the more you can feel the breath of despair.
In my life, I have seen many people who fell into despair. Some chose to face the bleak after recognizing the reality, while others fell into delusions and hallucinations after being unable to accept the reality. Birdman is the latter. Whenever the will is challenged by reality, the birdman will show amazing "superpowers", moving vases in the air, rotating the cigarette case in the air, and the babbling whispers that claim to be "positive energy", all kinds of surreal performances The techniques all imply a birdman whose spirit is gradually distorted and disintegrated. Only his muttering is still tenaciously showing the cold reality: that clown is not half as talented as you, but he makes a lot of money in a suit of iron. earn!
However, the illusion is not airtight, it is always punctured by reality, again and again. When Birdman tried his best to regain the public's attention, the asshole actor named Mike won the front page of the next day's newspaper with his erect penis on stage; , when he failed to win the favor of drama critics, the video of him walking on the street naked and wearing underwear unexpectedly received a lot of views; when Birdman showed the sincerity of betting all his belongings, he did not get When recognized by the industry, he broke his nose with a real gun on the stage, but made his stage play a success... When the newspaper reported the few drops of blood from his nose with a headline, Instead of his painstaking performance, it was enough to make him understand that all his struggles were in vain, and it was not only the Birdman who was abandoned by the public, but also the era represented by the Birdman, "This is no longer the 1990s. "My friend's kind reminder is still in my ears. In the impetuous moment, no one really pays attention to the performing arts, there are only all kinds of grandstanding, and as a middle-aged person without Facebook, Twitter, or blog, Birdman has long since cut himself off from this era. , but he insisted on being accepted by this era, which is the source of the whole tragedy.
Birdman succeeded, he returned to the public eye, Birdman failed, he lost his last dignity as an actor! Birdman committed suicide. He didn't accept failure, and he was unwilling to compromise. Death became the only way out, but at least he got out of the hallucination and jumped down soberly, instead of really feeling that he was a bird who could only fly.
The burning fireball draws a bright arc in the sky and falls slowly. This may be a life that is dying quickly, and will be shattered when it hits the ground, but so what, at least it illuminates the entire night sky, and also Brighten her daughter's gloomy face. Birdman once roared on stage: "Now every minute I want to be someone else, not myself." But this time, he died very ego.
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