"Superhero movies have that name for a reason: They feature people who win, who conquer, who use their super strength to do super things and save days. Birdman is about the rest of us—the schmucks who don't have power, or who had it and lost it and are now wondering if we're relevant at all. And because of that, it rises above.
In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's newest film, which expands to a wider theatrical release this week, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thompson, an actor in the third act of his career. Riggan once donned a cowl on the big screen as the hero Birdman and while it made him rich and famous, it also drained his credibility as a serious thespian. Now, in one last attempt to prove his legitimacy, he's exhausted nearly all his finances to write, direct, and star in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." Watching Riggan fight for redemption is like watching bald eagles fight in mid-air: either he'll pull it off and destroy his demons, or he'll crash trying, and the uncertainty is riveting.
But even more compelling than Riggan's troubled quest is how his life is a commentary on our celebrity-obsessed—and presently superhero-obsessed—world. In a twist on Tyler Durden's lamentation in Fight Club that not all men will one day be "millionaires and movie gods and rock stars," Thompson was all those things and it brought him no joy. He's still haunted by the Birdman voice in his head telling him he's better than Robert Downey Jr. (the movie's full of these au courant references), and he's looking for a way to prove it to anyone who'll listen…"
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