Birdman

 It may or may not include spoilers – At your own risk

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I’ve seen the movie last night after postponing it for ages and I was… confused? The script is written to be magical realism example obviously. In magical realism –or magic realism- magical or unreal elements play a natural part in a realistic -often mundane- environment. Which I suppose it should be confusing at some part. But what really confused me was this movie won the Oscar for best motion picture of the year. And in my humble opinion that’s some stinky part of the bull.

I adore Emma Stone, I’m a big fan of Edward Norton -I have mixed feelings about Michael Keaton but it’s not that important- and it still wasn’t enough to keep me interested.

The general idea I liked, don’t get me wrong on that. The struggle of an actor going down hill with his career after he has reached the climax… I even liked the magic realism but in my opinion that was all this movie had.

I couldn’t focus on the overall movie that’s why I have only some notes on specific details:

There are definitely spoilers here:

• Firstly, I'm a person of unimportant tiny details; and the fact that at the beginning of the movie they obviously use FaceTime and we can't see that little square on the corner that Michael Keaton should appear is highly disturbing me.
• The score of the movie… nope! It was even rejected by the Academy. (That drummer tho)
• At the end of the last performance on stage, I said “wow, he IS going with a bang” I was excited for the first time about something happening on the movie and….. he didn’t.
• But the bird masky bandage was a nice touch at the end.
• Still… who puts a gun into their head and shoots their nose??? Seriously?!
• Even though this movie is categorized as a comedy drama, the only comedic element in the movie was the dancing Spiderman and Bumblebee punching Iron Man on stage.
• However I can't deny that I was entertained when Keaton had to walk on the Times Square in his underwear.
• I know Michael Keaton was Batman but I don't think that it was necessary for Birdman to be this similar to Batman.
• Finally, in the original ending there was supposed to be Johnny Depp and instead of Birdman's voice Captain Jack Sparrow's voice was used; but later on it was changed to the version in the final cut. I think keeping on with Birdman is the right thing to do considering the context of the scene but I really wouldn't mind seeing Depp at the end.  

I didn't want to elaborate on this because... well... there is not so much to look forward to in the movie. That's why if you are willing to watch it, it is best that you know as little as possible about it.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that it is a bad film. I'm just saying that in my humble opinion it is not supposed to be the choice as an Oscar winner comparing to all those other amazing nominees.

And again, thank you for reading my humble opinion.