"Birdman" and what I believe it may mean.

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2019)

Let's begin with the elephant in the room, the single take. I feel the use of a one take in Birdman is to make appear as a play, and to display the looming calamity of Riggan's position, Making everything feel liken a boiling kettle, unconsciously searing in the back of the viewers brain. The way one takes are done in this film is something to behold, it is very hard to capture emotion during scenes in a single take, due to the use of close ups mediums and portraits to convey certain emotions, a technique that becomes very apparent in dialogue, the creative lengths this film goes to in order to create compelling dialogue scenes are brilliant.
Now that is out of the way, lets address materialism and the state of cinema as we know it, the play Riggan has constructed in the film becomes quite clearly diluted by his reign as a superhero, but the superhero theme is not the representation of cinema, audacity and pretension is, the hubris of Riggan becomes apparent when his supposed super powers are introduced, Riggan's powers are not illusions within his head, or actual, they are allegorical, which makes the ending tenacious to attempt understand.
Only minor spoilers are displayed here so I will not get into what I believe happened, and seeing as there are so many theories, I will not shove my beliefs in your face, because I feel the film is up for interpretation, but at the end of the day it would almost be more compelling if it simply meant nothing.