As one film critic remarked, Birdman is played by an actor who played Batman for Burton. Coincidence?
A movie worth watching at least for the sake of cinematography, because everything the camera did was genius. Almost the entire film, except for the final scenes, does not contain glues and transitions and is shot as a solid indivisible scene. And it looks like real magic because I've seen things that can't be. The camera, which was always in cramped rooms, flew between the characters like a haunted ghost and never switched in more than an hour. The real magic is that you don't understand how it's done. How can actors play so perfectly without ever getting lost, without a single glue? It must be assumed that these gluings were, but the power of the graphics they were fused without a single seam. Everything about the characters, the actors, the plot, the idea is also solid beauty, extravaganza. The atmosphere of the theater, its squabbles and bustle, the shining of its stage and the deep imperfection of the backstage are perfectly conveyed. Anyone who's ever been there will understand.
However, there are downsides that I couldn’t forgive for the film, so I won’t give 10 points. Everything about the critical character repeats the theme in Ratatouille. There is a lot of obscenity in the film, the characters are often expressed in non-theatrical terms and discuss their sexual problems for a long time, in my opinion it was completely inappropriate. Well, the last 10 minutes of the film are completely crazy, they contradict first medicine, and under the credits and at all – common sense.
But in general, of course, I liked the film, strong, ideological, left an impression for a few days. I recommend it.
