An Ambitious Drama Told in an Unusual Style

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2015)

It is not a usual drama full of dialogue or a superhero film, but the way that the screenwriters manipulate to present the whole story is surprisingly stunning. It ventures into the stage performance, film industry, the fight between the integrity and mind of the artists, the critics, the over bloating superheroes film in Hollywood; all are perfectly crafted into the life of an old actor who is struggling with his egoism in attempting to recover both his career and family. This journey of crisis, transformation, battling of stressful emotions and the inner powerful demon of himself are well played by Michael Keaton, thanks to the strong and loud jazz drum scores as well as magical, thrilling, ambitious style of delivering by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu. The mind blowing and overwhelming development might make the audiences to feel that this film about art and life is imitating Nolan's style of cinematography, but the ambiguous ending has rather more complex which gives the opportunity to the audiences to decide whether to end it positively or negatively.