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Movie Review: Birdman [Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance]

The ever present beating of drums throughout the entirety of the film keeps the emotional tensions at bay; it sure made me at ease with every shift of the scene change momentum with smooth camera transitions. The coping with the roller-coaster of emotions had been as smooth as I was viewing a musical. The film is almost 2 hours on dialogue yet there was never a dull moment. I liked it from the way it began with that cryptic dead jellyfish (?) to the ubiquitous split persona of a flying bird-man always pestering Keaton wherever he goes – his room, the bar, even while on the road and at the hospital. That euphoria kept me glued; it connects fantasy and real world seamlessly. It lets us enter into his inner world of personal demons. It’s also more like a play on celebrity relevance knowing how Keaton disappeared from the limelight so many years after he was the iconic Batman. All he was now is an ageing actor. I love Batman but we all know this movie franchise always gets a reboo