Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) by Markmunro — 09 Jan 2015

I will start by saying I didn't particularly enjoy this film, I will agree with what many others have said and that it was a good idea and had some hugely interesting themes and sub-plots running throughout, sadly I just found it long, ponderous and pretentious, I got how the lead character was portraying how we are all trying to find our place in the world and how he was scared he was going to be forgotten after he was gone and I also got how the film was about the lead character's personal battles vs schizophrenia and also on how to be a success in hollywood (make something 'meaningful' vs selling-out and also a comment of what these two things actually mean and whether or not these things are actually nonsense when compared to real-life success in being a man, being a good father, husband etc), it was also a comment on big hollywood blockbusters vs real art whilst also simultaneously mocking the over-pretentious nature of theatre, all very clever, it was just delivered in an overly-long and slow manner, I also hated the inane freestyle jazz drumming which constantly repeated itself throughout and the single shot camera trickery did my head in too, this though is just my opinion, if you don't agree fair enough, I don't care.