Birdman - What it all Meant 

By attempting suicide, he beat the critic. She had no choice but to give it a good review or else her reputation would be ruined. We even see her defeat when she storms out of the theater after the standing ovation. Favorite part about the movie

Birdman was absolutely captivating, with some truly excellent performances. Great explanation of it all!

Really what Birdman is bout, is mans battle with his ego (in this case a flying superhero) through various stages of suffering he awakens, and identifies himself with not what his ego thinks or tells him to be. But what he truly is, a Consciousness being. Far surpass any mental label or justification, he is free from an suffering he once had. What you accept you go beyond

Thanks for making this video. A friend of mine despises this film as he thinks it's just Inarritu being overly artsy and having a poor comment on superhero films and washed up actors. But what I initially thought of the film (a character study of a tortured soul who doesn't get life and is selfish) and your video make me realize what this is truly about and I respect that.

5:20 what that man is saying is actually what Macbeth says in Shakespeare's Macbeth when he finds out his wife has died.

i hated the ending the first time i watched it because i noticed the intentional allusions to schizophrenia throughout the film, and the implication that he actually wasn’t experiencing an extreme episode the whole time pissed me tf off. like... what is that saying? literally nothing. but then i thought about it and realized that sam’s reaction could’ve just been him imagining what her reaction would’ve been after he jumped and flew. but in reality, he fell to his death thus tragically yet perfectly concluding the film-exposing the ego for its intrinsic absurdity and allowing riggan to die, finally, fulfilled. i like that ending much better.

"Won't be the first time I've been humiliated." "Of course it won't." 😂🤣😂 sounds like something i would blurt out 😂🤣

What's amazing is how self-referential the film is to Michael Keaton himself, who successfully did everything he could to not be typecast because of the Batman films he did, but a lot of actors, and actresses weren't as successful of getting beyond typecasting. I'm sure many of them wanted to tell that basic premise in a film, but who could have conveyed that collective angst, and frustration better than Michael Keaton? Allegorically the film in terms of catharsis, is allegorically similar to what historians call a counterfactual ("what if"), and Keaton through a lot of soul searching knew he could have easily gone down the road of Riggan, struggling to be taken seriously.

He actually resembles birdman after his face is bruised by the muzzle blast and he's in the hospital looking out the window.

Im not an Edward Norton fan...but he was amazing in this movie.

Could you do one or Being John Malkovich or American Psycho? You're really good at this.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is the best director. You are my teacher. I hope your channel develops.

great analysis once again but i feel like you left out the scene at the very end. i wasnt quiet sure what to make of it myself.

This channel is excellent. Came up in my recommended so hopefully you;re 'bout to blow up :)

Glad you are back.

I have a question, at the early beginning of the film when an object fell on the bad actor's head, was it done by accident and the hero's ego mad him think that he did it and make that object fall on the guy's head ?? 1:22

Great as always! I really liked your interpretation

Wow your videos are so thoughtful! You deserve more subscribers

Can you do a whiplash - what it all meant please

Good analysis! This is one of my favourite films ever!

Hi, can you explain me, please, why Sam repeat so many times to Edward Norton "truth or dare"?

Awesome review and analysis, to be honest I've seen this movie 5-6 times, love it, but I've never really dug into the meaning as I've always just enjoyed it so much for the story and performances. You make compelling and detailed assessments. I like your contrast between M. Keaton and E. Norton, both sides of the same coin, and equally unfulfilled if they don't embrace their own reality/blessings.

Her looking down at the end and then up smiling was she saw that he was dead but chose “ignorance” by realizing in death he got what he wanted and could fly and so she knows he is now “flying” even though he’s dead on the ground.

Great Video! Keep up the good work

I was waiting for this!

Can you do one of these for the film "Stay"? I found this film difficult to follow. Thanks! :)

Great to have you back :)

Best movie analysis channel on youtube.

I'd like to see you make a video on Memento

The truth behind fame is that once you're on top, you are only going to be there for a short time. Until you become simply a relic of the past.

i love it that his true powers are revealed at the end to his daughter:)

Birdman is the perfect (it isn't perfect) movie because it can't be done any other way, it's almost impossible. And that's not singing its praises. The way the characters talk, the way they walk, and run, and squawk, this shit can't be attempted by other films that don't have Birdman's exact plot. The plot is the saving grace, the leverage to what could be a trainwreck. The reason I know this is because I've seen it done before and it's obvious and it's atrocious. What's best is that all the actors are interchangeable. God, it's lucky they landed on this selection.

You make analyzing films look easy. Great content!

Dude i like the new style, GG

Bit like The Glass Menagerie in a way.

I very much enjoyed this, thank you for making this content

I was wondering if someone could explain the Never ending story?

Can you please put a subtitle or a transcript to this video or at least enable it to be auto-translated?

excellent job. thanks you for making this!

I'd love to see you do a Stanley Kubrick movie

I need help with Synecdoche New York, starring the great Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Thanks

what about when he jumps out the window?

And what's the meaning of the drumming in the movie? Does it mean something or is it just there to fuck up some minds?

This is so good but I couldn't make out what you were sayin at times

Alot of this is half right and half wrong. But their can be no wrong when interpreting a film.... THIS movie for me was like if 2 followers of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick came together to make a movie but didn't know how to work together to get the desired results.!! The ending would have been do Absolutely brilliant if he actually did shoot himself, but in the head and he layed in the hospital bed as the monitor just kept beeping. Then as his daughter looked out the window she covers her mouth in awe as a tear runs down her cheek,, and right at that point the hospital monitor flat lines with the familiar sound of beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

So did he kill himself at the end so his legacy could never be tarnished again?

great review, i really liked it

Great movie

What is meant by "parallel"

Riggan reminds me so much of Willy Loman.

You need to fix the video editing, video doesn't match up at the end

you should do perfect blue or eyes wide shut

More like What I Think It Meant

The neon demon and drive, please!

this is so deep

I hate this movie as much as I love it. It's commentary on what art and entertainment is is pretty spot on, but it's all wrapped up in the same gimmicky pretentious shell it preaches against. It's as repulsive as it is compelling, which makes it so fascinating I never want to watch it again. What is this movie?

Yes!! :D

Kim Kardashian should watch this movie

Please do the recent Ex Machina.

The whole movie is about the very end...when he climbs out of the window....what happened? You did not finish.....

Do one on the Truman show

Do revolver with Jason statham

do the movie Enemy!

Im here when there's 66k subs

OOOOOOOOOOH!

You do have an idea how things work don't you?

Inflection is ok you know...SMH.

did he die or not

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Your voice is not able to the job correctly. Can´t handle 15 secs, srly. Get someone else to do the job. Keep wirting though, nice content.

When I saw this film, I could not wait until it was over.

Birdman is a technically interesting, stupidly predictable, sophomoric exercise in philosophy for the inane. The stunning thing is less the editing and more the amount of money spent in the redundant nonsense.

Is anyone like me and just hates this movie? I really got bored while I was watching it the second time through. I just don't like it for some weird reason. I still give the movie props for being deep for all the other viewers, but to me it was like trying so hard to keep me interested.

Birdman was a bore. It was sooo boring and weird! Why did this movie win best picture?

God, so glad I didn't watch this. Thank you.

This movie was boring, I wasted 1 hour 45 minutes

Birdman is horus. He is the destroyer of Revelation aka Apollyon. Revelation 9:11. Birdman is the same bird on Hitler hat and on our money. He is the king of the bottomless pit

Excellent analysis, but you forget to add the part where the entire world is completely obsessed with social media, videos that go viral or, in other words, jut things that don't even matter, oh wait I think you did talk about that.

Cool interpretation. I thought pretty much the same... Just the ending was a little misunderstanding. So his daughter sees him flying apparently, so metaphorically rising as a person through everything he learned and not caring about his ego anymore if I'm right - Is that the whole meaning though? What do you guys think?

Could you attach a transcript of what you said? It's really hard to follow sometimes when you have these cutscenes that interrupt your commentary

Mediocre, muddled analysis. Simply put, Birdman is about a big movie star who is also a mediocre actor and a pseudo intellectual but who wants to evolve into something bigger, grander than his established accomplishments allow. He sees the shallowness in his film work and wants to reach for the stars. He knows that there is a deeper meaning to life and he has a passion to articulate it. However he is held back by fate which is represented here by his own personal limitations. It is, therefore, a comedy about an overreacher. It is also simultaneously a tragedy about a good man whose fatal flaw is hubris. We identify with Birdman because we too wish to transcend our hum drum experience, to reach for something better, the American dream , in any of its guises.

0:43 what image is that?

Awesome man what a video superb

Great Video! You should do 'The Revenant' next.

Am I the only person who detested this movie? I mean I really hated it. (and i have tried twice to get through it...) Love your channel though.... : )