Somewhere in Alejandro's Inarritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) lurks a decent short story. Maybe not a great short story like the Raymond Carver story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," which in Birdman is the subject of an stage adaptation by Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton)--a Hollywood actor who has made his reputation as a superhero. Birdman is a play within a movie and at the end, the lead actually shoots himself. The movie's bevy of theater row critics eventu...
Somewhere in Alejandro's Inarritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) lurks a decent short story. Maybe not a great short story like the Raymond Carver story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," which in Birdman is the subject of an stage adaptation by Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton)--a Hollywood actor who has made his reputation as a superhero. Birdman is a play within a movie and at the end, the lead actually shoots himself. The movie's bevy of theater row critics eventu...
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