7年前,我和xjw在新加坡的电影院里看《鸟人》,至今我都保留着当年这部电影海报的明信片。我记得那届是奥斯卡大年,《星际穿越》,《布达佩斯大饭店》,《爆裂鼓手》都于那时获奖。那年是影迷们的狂欢。

今晚第二次看,不得不感叹打击乐的重要,刚开头就是字母随着鼓点的节奏出现,之后每次演员走在后台过道上,鼓点也会响起。这个戏剧性的鼓点给人很强的欲望,让观众始终期待着之后的剧情。

Young birdman和Riggan之间的对话体现着他经常活在自己的世界里,两种立场不断争执产生冲突。印象最深的一句话是: You are larger than life, man. You save people from their boring, miserable lives. 每个人或许都幻想自己成为larger than life的人,但到头来却如同Sam所说,在宇宙的这桶卷纸上,人类出现的时间只有小小一格。这让我想到了《爱,死,机器人》第三季中有一集结尾很相似:病毒占领人类,人类用无数核弹自我毁灭,在银河系的眼中只是放了个p。Why so serious? Riggan的表现给了我们答案:即使人类在整个宇宙中如此渺小,他的存在与否根本不值一提,但他还是going out of his way to leave his mark in history. 苔花如米小,也学牡丹开。

最后谈回标题,电影的全名叫做Birdman or (the unpected virtue of ignorance). 经典哲学家,如柏拉图和亚里士多德认为,virtues, as human excellences, could not involve ignorance in any way. 但是virtue of ignorance always bring unpected newness。放在影片中这代表着 An ignorant person has made choices that an experienced Broadway director wouldn't, but they worked.