I dream of falling into the sky.

Alden 2022-04-22 07:01:02

"There are two types of escape. The purposeful escape is called flying, and the purposeless escape is called floating."

From the beginning to the end, from the incisive performance on the stage, from the struggle of the actors in the backstage, from every passer-by outside the theater, everywhere The popping drummer, the bartender, the swarming reporters, to the windowsill of the hospital. The long shots make the audience truly integrate into this work, and the immersive existence exists in this stage play. Almost everyone who mentions this film will talk about long shots, which are extremely long shots. For the first half hour, I felt a little dizzy. The camera shifted and the actors came on stage one by one like a revolving lamp, and there was no chance to breathe at all. In the time that followed, I gradually began to adapt to this rhythm.

Plot (omitted)

Every family has a hard-to-read scripture, whether it is the frustrated Regan, the lost Mike, or the daughter with a beautiful ass (laughs), or the heroine who was almost caught by Mike during the performance in the stage play, or Brokers, everyone has embarrassments that everyone lives, just like us. Regan hopes to save his career and save himself through a stage play. He is not just a birdman in fancy clothes. The audience knows him through this role, but what people know is only the birdman he played, not him. So he desperately wanted to say that I'm okay, I'm okay, as a screenwriter, as an actor.

what is love. Love is sold, love is sold at convenience stores for 298 yen (tax included), but it is so expensive that no one can afford it.

I am not a bird man, and a bird man is not me;
I am me, and a bird man is a bird man;
I am a bird man, and the bird man is me.

Mike Nichols once warned Inaritu that this method of shooting would be a disaster, but Inaritu used his long shots to turn every audience into a birdman following Regan, Laughing and cursing, crying and struggling with everyone in the theater.
This lens is like Regan's eyes, the eyes of Birdman, the eyes that can see themselves. It exists real and illusory, and it examines everyone in the play, just as we examine this movie.

Yes, these are our eyes, the eyes of the Birdman.
We are all the same as birdmen, hesitating, bewildered, struggling, but trying hard to live an ordinary life that seems ordinary.
Just craving to be loved.
We are all bird people.

There was a pause in the long shot after Regan shot, and during this time Regan just lost consciousness. After the editor cut through it happily, the picture came to an unfamiliar ceiling.
After Strange Ceiling (laughs)
, the long shot is back, and the birdman is back.
A shot killed the birdmen in the past, and the miracle of survival gave birth to a new birdman.
You are not dead! As long as there are audiences, Birdman won't die, and tags won't die.
So, Reagan looked at him calmly, walked into the room calmly, stood on the window sill calmly, looked down at the people downstairs
calmly, and fell into the sky calmly.
I'm not a birdman, but I can also fly.



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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) quotes

  • Sylvia: You know, just because I didn't like that ridiculous comedy you did with Goldie Hawn did not mean I did not love you. That's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

  • Clara: Now, is it true that you've been injecting yourself with semen from baby pigs?

    Riggan: I'm sorry, what?

    Clara: As a method of facial rejuvenation.

    Riggan: Where did you read that?

    Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers.

    Riggan: No, that's not true.

    Clara: I know, but did you do it?

    Riggan: No, I didn't do it.

    Clara: Okay, then I'll just write that you're denying it.

    Riggan: No, don't write anything! Why would you write anything? I didn't... don't write what she said.