Birdman

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2015)

Birdman is about Riggan (Michael Keaton). Riggan once was a successful actor of a popular superhero. The hero was ,ofcourse, Birdman. but times flew by and he has become less popular. Now he tries to redeem himself by writing a new play whole by himself. He will also direct and ply in it. The movie follows Riggan how he handles his new play, how critics react to it, how he reacts to critics, about his own family live... An example of the critics: in the movie at a certain point, Riggan is sitting in a bar and meets this girl. The girl turns out to be a film critic. And before even watching his play, she says to him that she will write a bad review about his play.
The movie is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Before I watched this movie this director was an unknown man (for me at least). But he did an amazing job at directing, I really liked the style. But it must have been very trying for the actors in it. I have read in the 'trivia' that they had to learn more than 10 pages of script. But as I have said, I loved the directing
Now the actors and the script. Micheal Keaton is good in the movie. He did a good job and I have nothing to say bad about his preformans. But the actress that had the best lines and did the best acting job was, in my opinion Emma stone. I loved her in the movie. when she was saying to her dad (Micheal Keaton) that he isn't the only one fighting to be relevant. I absolutely loved that scene, it was my favorite scene of the entire movie. Edward Norton did also a really good job. I didn't like the personality of his character as much. It's like Joffrey Baratheon from game of thrones. Everyone hates him, but he makes the people hate him (if you know what I mean. The script of the movie is very well written, and as I have said, that the 'relavant' scene is my favorite scene, but there are a lot of other scenes that are equally as good. Overall I thought that Emma stone got the best lines form the hole movie.
The movie is also pretty funny at times, but also dramatic during the end of the movie. A funny part is when Riggan walks through times square in his underwear. or when he jumps of the roof an thinks he is flying, but actually took a taxi. And than the most dramatic scene, when he tries to commit suicide in front of a live audience, an in the hospital, when he jumps out of the window.
I Really liked the movie and here are some individual scores:
Directing: 10/10
Acting: 9/10
writing: 10/10
thats a total of 29/30 which is rounded 10