The protagonist desperately wants to prove himself in the performance, but the progress of the stage play is twists and turns, and various problems follow. First, there was an accident during rehearsal, and the injured actor always came to claim after the event. There was trouble again during the preview, and the big-name actors invited were talented but stinky. Even the critics came to the confusion, saying that he was just a star, not worthy of being an actor. People knew him and asked him to take pictures because he played Birdman, a past he desperately wanted to get rid of. The more he wanted to escape the shadow of the birdman character, the more the birdman lingered like a ghost. His daughter, who once went to a drug rehab center, is now helping him with some assistant work, but she has always been attentive to him, even rude.
The more the protagonist tries to prove himself, the more he pushes himself in the opposite direction. The more you try your best, the more you find yourself powerless. He worked so hard, both as an actor and as a father, to show his worth to others. In the end, just like the person in the play he played, he found that he always begged others to love him, wanted to dress himself up as others hoped, but finally couldn't get the love of others.
In the end, the protagonist falls into despair and tries to take his own life on the stage like a character in the play. At this moment, he completely overlapped with the people in the play, and he fully performed this role with his own life. As a result, his performance shocked the audience and the performance was a huge success. At the same time, it also shortened the distance with her daughter.
He is so hard because he lacks love and lacks a sense of security in his heart. He can only use success to prove his worth, to prove that he is worthy of being loved. And once he encounters setbacks and success becomes slim, his inner world will collapse.
On the other hand, there are really not a few people who are insecure like this. We work hard because we are afraid that our parents won’t love us if we don’t work hard; we are hypocritical because we are afraid that our sincerity will scare away those who originally loved us. The "love" we seek in this way makes us more and more afraid to relax, so we lose ourselves more and more. In this sense, many of us are "bird people".
When the protagonist really puts down everything and has no worries, success and family love will embrace him instead. But like a birdman, he became incomparably light and flew into the sky, away from this turbulent world.
The film is made up of ten cool long shots, connected by special effects in the middle, which seems to be one shot to the end. Use relationships and conflicts between characters to connect scenes and bridges, not time. In this way, the audience will not be distracted by the awesome long shots when watching the movie, but will be more engaged and pay more attention to the relationship between the characters. The viewing experience is one-stop, very enjoyable. This method is a more difficult editing, but it was not nominated for the Best Editing Award at the Oscars, which is a pity.
Most of the time, the characters shuttle and interact in the narrow space of the theater backstage. The maze-like backstage seems to be as complicated as the protagonist's life. The camera needs to closely follow the moving characters, and sometimes even close to the actors to shoot close-ups, but it cannot hinder the actors' performances, so the arrangement and scheduling of the camera positions are very difficult. It was a very challenging challenge for both the director and the cinematographer, and the film was done so flawlessly that it deserved to win Best Director and Best Cinematography. Mirrors are often used in the film, and the faces of the characters appear in the mirror from time to time. The mirror is a common tool used by actors in the backstage. It appears in the camera without being obtrusive, and it skillfully presents characters that are not easy to photograph, showing that it is extremely clever.
The large number of long takes is also a great challenge for the actors, who need to maintain their emotions and interact with other actors for a considerable period of time. Actor Michael Keaton and supporting actor Edward Norton both performed brilliantly, but it's a pity that this time the Oscar lost to a strong contender. "It's not that my brother is incompetent, but the Communist army is too cunning!"
The drum set in the background music is the bright spot, and it often sounds when the characters are in turmoil, making people panic and adding more tension to the plot.
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