Essay On Birdman

Movie Review – Birdman
The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
The movie Birdman, by Alejandro Iñárritu is a dramatic-tragedy-comedy. It evolves around the actor and instructor Riggan Thompson, played by Michael Keaton. He is instructing a play; by the famous Raymond Carver called “What we talk about, when we talk about love”, while he plays the main character in the play as well. We get an intimate look at Riggan Thompson’s most inner battles, as his alter ego “Birdman”, challenges his conscious and makes him struggle to take the right choices, while we also experience what an actor/instructor has to endeavor, when he finds himself on Broadway.

Birdman lives in the theater, where he is only “interrupted” by the outside world, when his daughter or ex-wife, visits him. - Or when he gets locked out of the theater and has to run around the building, while “in character”.

The music and the sudden fast-forwards, where we skip a long period of time, while being in the same spot, makes the movie work on a deeper level. –A level where art meets big screen Hollywood-films, while maintaining cultural depth, where you are forced to sympathies with the actors in the movie. The music switches between classical and jazz music. What this does for, the settings in the movie is priceless. You feel the emotions flowing through the persons, and how important it is for Riggan to be something/someone else, than Birdman. And that’s why I think the movie is a giant success, just as Riggan’s play in the