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I can't believe this is the best film at this year's Oscars!
Arne 2022-04-23 07:01:06
I fell asleep after watching the Qatar flight to Paris before halfway through, but now I can watch the whole film in one breath, I really don't think there are too many surprises, including the so-called long shot, but it is from last year's "Land" A continuation of Gravity. The theme is nothing more than a sneer at the current superhero movies and the stars who make these big commercials, a so-called ruthless attack on the supreme film critic. There aren't many new ideas about the trade-off between ideal and reality and the phenomenon of hit-and-run overnight fame, not to mention the old, over-hyped topics of the Internet and the media. Instead, it's the comparison of actors and stars. This interesting topic attracts me the most. In fact, whether it is Raymond Carver or an actor who devotes himself to the arts, this film is more and more like a love letter to Michael Keaton from a veteran fan, and even the title of the movie imitates the title of his popular movie in the 1980s and 1990s. This kind of film focusing on a certain small circle theme is far from the temperament and human nature of the Oscar movies I imagined. However, when viewed only as an ordinary art film, it feels inferior to many of the Mexican director's predecessors, such as "Beautiful Mistakes" or "Babel."
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) quotes
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Riggan: What is this?
Sam: Oh yeah
[pause]
Sam: thats pot.
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Riggan: Listen to me. I'm trying to do something important.
Sam: This is not important.
Riggan: It's important to me! Alright? Maybe not to you, or your cynical friends whose only ambition is to go viral. But to me... To me... this is - God. This is my career, this is my chance to do some work that actually means something.
Sam: Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people whose only real concern is gonna be where they go to have their cake and coffee when it's over. And let's face it, Dad, it's not for the sake of art. It's because you want to feel relevant again. Well, there's a whole world out there where people fight to be relevant every day. And you act like it doesn't even exist! Things are happening in a place that you willfully ignore, a place that has already forgotten you. I mean, who the fuck are you? You hate bloggers. You make fun of Twitter. You don't even have a Facebook page. You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it.
Sam: Dad...