A very difficult review

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2015)

I just watched the movie and read a couple of reviews as well. Almost all the reviews are poor. However, I must say that I liked the movie, a lot actually. It tries to look at the world from the eyes of a "once famous" actor. There have been numerous such attempts before, including that of hallucination and all but I think birdman stands apart. There is no or very little story-line but that's OK. The point of the story is to convey an idea. If you can convey the idea is a few words or a single image, it does the job. You do not need 1.5 hours all the time. Birdman is about a once famous person trying to make a come back. The couple of days he spends during the previews, all that happens around there. The birdman's perspective of the world around him is so different from the perspective of other people. That I think is the story-line. There is nothing great about the story. It has been told numerous times. But the way it is shown here makes it worth a watch. Its not really an art movie but does manage to convey the "idea of ignorance".