The Reason Birdman Won Best Picture

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2015)

I have recently finished watching Birdman for the second time and I think I finally understand what the draw was for this movie. To begin with the movie mentions several different actors and celebrities through out which make the movie an all around fun experience. But what is really important in this movie and what most people miss, is the powerful messages director and writer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is trying to get his viewers to see.
Of all the messages that are trying to be made two are very important. One is the idea that we all think we are important in this world but we are really not (this is taught to us through Michael Keaton's character Riggan). The second is that we all think we are unimportant but we are actually all very important and special (this is taught through Michael Keaton's alter ego Birdman). In addition Inarritu is showing us several other things like the struggles of actors whether it be how stressful an acting life is, like Riggan's, or how insecure actors really are like Mike Shinner (Ed Norton). He also touches on the relationships between father and daughter, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, and a relationship between friends. Each one of these relationships contains a different lesson as well.
Since there are all of these messages to take in plus the constant distractions of Riggan's thoughts and "powers" the ideas people are supposed to get from this movie are lost. So watch it again and I guarantee you if you ignore the supernatural aspects you will really find something incredible in this movie. Everyone will take away some different life lesson.