Michael Keaton is Riggan an actor who peaked 20 years before as an action hero called Birdman. He now wants to direct and star in a serious play on Broadway and he becomes obsessed with attaining fame once again but this time, in his eyes, as a legitimate performer and not a feathered creature.
Through out the film there are scenes of his internal voice telling him he's either a worthless piece of shit and he's never going to pull off this play or that he's better than all of Hollywood and doesn't have to prove himself. Besides this inner voice there are also scenes of other fantasies; an actual bird, him flying, Riggan moving objects. and i have to admit i sometimes couldn't follow all these scenes. Though never to the point that i got lost in the story which was simple.
Naomi Watts is one of the actresses in the play and Edward Norton is Mike, an already accomplished actor who also is arrogant and difficult to work with. There is lots of smart and sarcastic and witty and glib dialogue and the acting is marvelous.
I was mesmerized by this movie and I hated to have to go to the bathroom but luckily our theater was right next to the women's loo.
I also liked the movie because it included a lot about the mechanics and process in putting on a play and rehearsing. I was amazed at how good Michael Keaton and Ed Norton were; just perfect. oh and the background music which was a lot of discordant almost jazz like drumming was wonderful and created a lot of tension.
Now i didn't give it more than 7.5 (the acting in fact was a 10) because some of the fantasy stuff left me puzzled and I didn't like the ending which was ambiguous and for me, deeply unsatisfying.
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