Birdman is the greatest film of all time and let me tell you why.
Riggan Thomson is a crazed ex-chad. He became a god among men when he landed his movie deal and became the Birdman. Now he's a tiny, bitter shell of his former self, desperately trying to find meaning and identity beyond birdman, and slowly realizing that there is none to be found.
Sam Thomson is a failed stacey. She had a crappy father, was constantly told she was special, believed it, and wound up crashing as a result and landed herself in rehab. She got out, and now people are desperately trying to not set her off again and everyone is trying to be nice to her, and she's disgusted by it all.
Mike Shiner is chad. He's on the top of his game, in his prime, and thinks he's hot shit. He takes every opportunity to take a jab at the former alpha, Riggan, as he can no longer enforce his alpha status and is a perfect target for anyone looking for an ego boost. Despite all of this, he's a fraud and his life means nothing.
Leslie is a normie woman who landed chad, and is euphoric that she gets to look special and be loved. She recognizes the absolute hollowness of the normie lifestyle and is desperately searching for a meaning to it all, but there is none and she can't handle that.
Jake is a toadie who still works for his chad, even though it's clear that he's attached himself to a person who is worthless. He defends Riggan and tries to keep him from going off the rails, and handles the consequences of his actions for him.
Laura is a fembot, she landed chad long after he lost his looks and his confidence. She's euphoric to be allowed to hang out with chad's people, and behaves somewhat autistically though still enjoying the privileges of being an attractive female.
Tabitha, somehow, is a female approximation of a wizard. An aging, bitter, misanthrope whose life holds absolutely no meaning, and is dedicated to tearing down normies however she can.
Cont.
Tabitha revels in having reached a position in life where she can cause suffering to normies, though she knows full well that they will continue to have fun and succeed no matter what she does.
Here's the plot.
Chad grows up and lands a movie deal with his good looks and alpha male tendencies. He is worshipped as a god for years, and his ego consumes him totally. His entire sense of being is tied into this character Birdman, and the fame and popularity he gives him.
He gets past his prime, and falls out of favor. He thinks that he can be anything meaningful without Birdman, but he's wrong, and his career goes down the fucking shitter. His daughter goes to rehab and his marriage falls apart.
Chad, humiliated and humbled, decides to throw a play to prove to the world that he's worth something, anything. He's become acquainted with the suffering that we all go through, and cannot cope. He wants out of this hell desperately, but is too much of a coward to end his own life.
He teams up with a group of normies to try and forge a new meaning for himself, and he pours everything into this endeavor. He has effectively created a new ego that he is trying to boost in the face of his old one, and the old one kicks his ass reminding him of how good he used to have it.
When one of his actors is injured, he's forced to team up with the next generation's chad, who knows his way around the environment that the former chad is desperately trying to adapt to. He proceeds to shit all over everything and generally act like an asswipe because his ego has never let him actually accept any responsibilities for his actions and he thinks he can do whatever he wants; and often can.
The two butt heads, the new alpha and the disgraced former alpha. Ex-chad is pissed off that things aren't going his way anymore and he can't intimidate this guy into toeing the line, and new chad is revelling in his ego and his freedom.
>>24104929
cont.
This comes to a head when he tries to fuck leslie, the ordinarily submissive normie girl, in front of a live studio audience. This is the first time any girl has ever refused him sex, and definitely the first time one has had the balls to kick him to the curb. He's had a brush with consequences to his actions.
Leslie, the normie, and Laura, the fembot, retreat to the changing room and share their feelings with each other. Leslie is naturally upset that Mike tried to nail her in such a nasty way and had total disregard for her consent, and is shook up at how worthless she really is to him, and to society as a whole.
Laura comforts her and proceeds to take this opportunity to kiss a woman. The two end up experiencing the feeling many a male robot has known when considering the benefits of boypucci vs. girlpussy, that the opposite sex is nothing but trouble and they should stick to theirs. Chad walks in and ruins this by trying to defuse the mounting ramifications of his actions, because nobody has ever stood up to him before and he's frightened that he's losing his status.
He then proceeds to completely forget about all that and nail the failed stacey daughter of the ex-chad, jumping right back into his consequence-free fuckfest of a life, and striking a blow to the ego of his only rival.
Ex-chad eventually confronts the witch, Tabitha. She explains rightly that she despises him and everything that he represents, and she is glad to have the opportunity so many robots had wished for to stop a normie from invading their sanctuary.
Ex-chad has learned a thing or two in his time as a failed normie, and proceeds to call her out for being nothing but a bitter person who wishes that she could be chad, wishes that she could be beloved, but can't, so she shits on everything, wallowing in impotent anger and complaining to anyone who will listen. She has been at it far too long to be intimidated by chad, however; she has access to magic, after all.
>>24104754
The movie is boring. Even the shitty parts where he hallucinates about Birdman. 2/10 movie, enjoyed only the scenes with Emma Stone.
>>24105060
She laughs in his face and promises to destroy his play; She has the rare opportunity to strike a death blow to a chad's ego and push him over the edge into robothood, where he would live in eternal limbo, never accepted by those he had once lived to oppress.
A distressed, effectively dying, ex-chad returns to his play and tries to make amends with his daughter; he's slowly learning the value of having people who genuinely love you and is desperately trying to find true meaning after having spent so long blissfully obviating any from his life.
Ex-chad and his gaggle of normies set out and put on a play that is beloved by the people, their egos gratified by the admiration of others; the only source of nourishment any of them had ever known.
Ex-chad still cannot let go of how great he was when he was chad, even though he knows it's time to leave the past in the past, his ego will not let him let go of the idea of making himself greater than everybody else.
This comes to a head when he puts on his play opening night, having been promised that this would be the last death rattle of his ego, that he would not receive a second chance at the good life, and shoots himself in the head. He has realized the misery and emptiness of the normie life, and cannot deal with the hollowness that now fills him.
He survives, because even as an ex-chad, no consequences come of his actions. He learns that in shooting himself, he actually convinced the witch to go back on her promise to end him, and she used her powers to send him back into celebrity.
This has the unfortunate effect of bring Birdman rushing back, disgusted at what he has become, and how he gets his ego gratified now.
Riggan, realizing that he will never be free from Birdman, knowing that he will always be chad but now his actions have consequences, being unable to deal with having been brought down to the level of a mere normal, leaps out a window, presumably to his death.
>>24105115
Of course you think it's boring, you watched it wrong. Maybe someday you'll understand.
>>24104754
Still a shit movie
>>24104754
>>24104929
>>24105060
i didn't read any of that shit
Birdman was pretentious BS by a hack filmmaker who couldn't sack up enough to stand by his beliefs. Instead, he hides behind irony while simultaneously failing to commit to being ironic enough to be entertaining. Not that it would've mattered either way. His actual beliefs are retarded.
Cuaron is way better. If nothing else, he's honest.
Ok I skimmed it. I'm seeing a lot of
>Chad
>fembot
If you're actually trying to break down a fucking fictional story [let alone real life (please god don't do this)] into simplistic alpha/beta robot/Chad dichotomies, then you're a fucking idiot who confuses preaching "similar" (kek) ideology with quality.
>>24105115
found the transformers fan
>>24105183
He leaves his daughter to find his corpse. This failed stacey, who had the chance to get back into the swing of normalhood and escape the toxicity of her chad father's legacy, has all of that shattered when she meets true suffering at the hands of a person she loves an-heroing.
It's a brilliant piece about how Chad will get his just desserts, and though normie culture may look excellent and desirable, it's a harrowingly empty grind, a constant search for distraction from the crushing meaningless of life.
The only source of joy in the life of a normie is in tearing down the joy of others, and eventually someone will come along to tear theirs down, and they will know the pain that they inflicted on those beneath them.
Not even Chad is safe from how bullshit living is. None of our lives mean anything; all our anger and egos amount to is fuel for the fire of the next generation's egos and anger.
honestly it's not that great of a film. i caught in the seattle independent film festival theater and the only good part was a qt independent actro was in there watching the film. i think she probably even thought it sucked.
the suicide at the end is great.
>>24105317
>suicide at the end
>>24105229
OP here. That's an interesting perspective; I'll have to check out this Cuaron you're talking about.
I'm glad to meet someone with a similar level of passion for film. I'd love to hear about some movies you like.
>>24105229
idi0t
>>24105229
I used to believe in that robot/chad stuff; but after a while I realized it's a lot of nonsense designed to excuse mediocrity and bitterness and give a reason not to try to better yourself.
>>24105229
Go be pleb on /tv/
>Cuaron is way better
LE OL EL
I loved Birdman. Interesting perspective, using it to expose the meaninglessness of the robot/chad/normie nonsense.
>>24104754
Birdman was awful.
>tfw this shitty thread is not about a movie detailing the life story of Charles Christopher Parker.
>>24104754
>Black Swan ripoff
