I decided to catch the movie 'Birdman' over the weekend as I was very curious to see why it won the best movie. Throughout the movie I kept on thinking where is this movie going.It had very powerful dialogues,witty dialogues,very powerful acting,strong cast,it has its share of humor,amazing camera work-the sweeping single shots just blew me away,then the last 10 mins totally threw me off.The ending was open to so much interpretation that I realized maybe that was what made the academy deem it a oscar worthy movie. But it is a very thought provoking movie,There are lot of powerful dialogues but for me in the entire movie there is this heated exchange between Michael keaton and emma stone which stuck with me,the idea of trying to be relevant in life! Its deep and makes so much sense to me about life.
Riggan: Listen to me. I'm trying to do something important.
Sam: This is not important.
Riggan: It's important to me! Alright? Maybe not to you, or your cynical friends whose only ambition is to go viral. But to me... To me... this is - God. This is my career, this is my chance to do some work that actually means something.
Sam: Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people whose only real concern is gonna be where they go to have their cake and coffee when it's over. And let's face it, Dad, it's not for the sake of art. It's because you want to feel relevant again. Well, there's a whole world out there where people fight to be relevant every day. And you act like it doesn't even exist! Things are happening in a place that you willfully ignore, a place that has already forgotten you. I mean, who are you? You hate bloggers. You make fun of Twitter. You don't even have a Facebook page. You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it.
