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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

Film

DirectorAlejandro González Iñárritu

Meta takes2

Figures

Form & technique

The jazz drum score → Anempathetic Sound

Tropes

The 'single-take' cinematography
The casting of Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson
Riggan's Birdman alter ego
The conflation of Broadway stage, Times Square, and filmic reality → The Hyperreal Mirage
The Birdman franchise clips and references
Riggan's obsession with "truth" on stage
The play-within-the-film, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"

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