Spectacular, breathtaking, an exhibition of surrealism and a thousand other things. Birdman is a great piece of Cinema. Michael Keaton stars as an ageing Riggan Thomson, once popular for playing a superhero called Birdman, a superhero franchise which had its last film in 1992, [which interestingly is also the year Michael Keaton’s 2nd batman film released] and is now desperately looking for a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. 22 years after Tim Burton made his last Batman film with Michael Keaton, who would have thought that the near extinct Keaton will return in such a hauntingly beautiful fashion and deliver the greatest performance of his career. In an interesting scene, Riggan Thomson tells her ex-wife of an incident: “The last time I flew here from LA, George Clooney was sitting two seats in front of me. With those cuff links, and that chin. We ended up flying through this really bad storm. The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying and praying. And I just sat there-- Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooneys face on the front page. Not mine. Did you know that Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson?” Ironically both Michael Keaton and George Clooney played Batman and even though we hated Clooney as Batman, we have seen his career flourish but Keaton never graduated from a mediocre filmography. This perhaps justifies the question the voice of Birdman asks Riggan: “how did we end up here”. Birdman is poetic, hallucinating and extremely illusive. It has an environment that resembles that of an art-house cinema. You can read the whole review by following the link
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:19:58 +0000
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