"Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" (2014) Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

“Get that smile off your face, you’re freaking me out”.

Breaking the mould of the critically titled “Death” films, here are ten reasons why you simply have to see Birdman, or to give the film it’s fuller title,

Birdman: the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

(1) “All of us has a Birdman in us, saying how great and brilliant we are”

Director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

(2) Aided and abetted by his lifelong friend and regular Director of Photography collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki, Editors Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione and a huge behind the scenes crew as well as a stellar cast of genuine A-List actors and actresses, this truly is a virtuoso triumph of vision, of daring and a complete break from the “Quadrilogy of Death” for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. A well worn cliché but this truly is the Director’s “Vision” writ large on the cinema screen. The meticulous nature and attention to detail shines through in every single frame and is truly incredible and a joy to behold. A play within a play within a film, everything rolling in seemingly one long continuous shot with no discernible edits, building and expanding on an eclectic mix of characters ostensibly within the confines of a Theatre but with the “outside” world always there, and you can take the outside world in any analogous way you wish. Multi levelled, multi dimensional and a thoroughly unique take on the existential crisis of a Hollywood Superstar who also happens to have supernatural powers? Only in the hands of Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu!

Part of a four man writing team, Inarritu deservedly landed an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay as well as two further gongs for the most prestigious Oscars in 2015, for Best Film of the Year and Best Achievement in Directing. In Oscar parlance, 2015 was deservedly the year of Birdman.

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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" and one of my earliest forays into film writing and film appreciation over a decade ago. This review was originally written just after the release of the film and transferred to my Medium blog site on 9th January 2022 and can now be read in full and for free via my original updated article linked immediately below:

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-life-in-six-films-18196beafc6

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