Birdman or (Implosion of Popularity)

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2017)

Riggan doesn't need to be nice, he has a job to do, and he's going to do it the best he can, and his best isn't good in the first place.
Riggan survives a career as Birdman, not too unlike Michael Keaton through the Batman series. And now he's trying to come back with a rendition of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love(unlike keaton, unless you could consider the making of this movie the comeback for him).
Riggan is chasing his dream, the peaks he's stood. But in his pursuit every life choice he's neglected compounds on his psyche, tearing down his down his delusions of who he is. And he's mean, because nothing matters to him anymore,
Riggan is driven to success, effectively making the film a satire of stardom and the transience of popularity. The very music that plays during the entirety is alive with popping percussion that goes in one and hatches out the other, it becomes a product of the moment, the same goes for the acting.
Keaton's acting and the other actors' and actresses' feels real, it occurs in the second it happens. Making each moment come in for a moment and subsequently disappear forever(or until you watch the thing again).
Riggan's journey is not a happy one, right for a man who gazes only at the past while presiding in the present. And you might be surprised with the fact that Riggan believes his half-baked attempt would dredge him up from the bottom of the modern swamp of popularity, but when the reflection is so ugly, sometimes you can't help but look away.