It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Oh wait…it actually is a bird. Image via Indiewire
“This place smells like balls…how did we get here?”
If you were going into Birdman expecting to find the beginning of the next big franchise, then you might want to look elsewhere.
Birdman might be the strangest film of 2014. It is also one of the most ambitious; one that is chock full of ideas. A lot of it hits, and when it misses, it really couldn’t give a shit if you liked it or not. Birdman is the other big gimmick film of 2014 (the other being Boyhood). It needs the gimmick to survive, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The gimmick in question, a never ending tracking shot, helps the film transcend its concept, which is actually pretty great to begin with.