Starring- Michael Keaton, Zack Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Naomi Watts, and Amy Ryan.
Directed By- Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Riggan: 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.
In an effort to combine fiction with realism, director Alejandro González has successfully put his 21 Grams on number two on my list of his favorites, since I now consider Birdman to be on to top. I was very surprised by this film and Alejandro González Iñárritu's direction is superb as he does a great job in bluring the lines between theatre and film as well as fiction and reality. The screenplay is also a gem as it showcases the inner conflict of Riggan though the voices of the Birdman character and provides a social commentary on the pop culture of Hollywood. What’s also impressive is the camera work by Emmanuel Lubezki, as it is consistently filmed like a one continuous shot and it is stunning to look at.
I wonder what all surprises that life has in its pocket, waiting to hit me hard, so that as a one positive end result, I will start to appreciate more masterpieces like this, whose thematic depths I overlooked and under appreciated during the past, while I was consuming movies like junk, just to check off my watchlist.
Edward Norton is also in this movie and played a familiar character to himself has the hard to work with actor that at times doesn't follow the lines that he was given or even the direction he was told. We already know that Norton is a fantastic actor in his previous work, but in this movie his performance could be descried has stellar and insanely good.
Emma Stone is this movie and of course like most of the actors I named off so far who were outstanding in this movie and well you can already guess what I'm going to say next. The other cast in the movie like Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis both did good as well.
The movie has a brilliant message about film critics today that doesn't feel like it's in your face message that you normally get in movies. There's a scene in this movie and by the way it's not a spoiler, but I really need to get this out the way first. Micheal Keaton character starts having a rant over this theater critic who is going to give a bad review to he's play when she hasn't even seen it or any of the premieres. He talks about how she only users big words that nobody will say in person and shes to lazy to come up what she really thinks about it so she users big words just to fill in the sentence.
My Rating- 8.5/10
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