Birdman: Existentialist Selfie

*Before you head out to the movies this weekend, check out  Sandra Ramos O’Briant’s take on Iñárritu’s latest work. VL

By Sandra Ramos O’Briant, Huffington Post

I like Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s directorial work, and a movie starring Michael Keaton was a plus. A trusted friend had seen Birdman in Telluride and gave it high marks. Off to the movies!

Keaton’s work has grown darker, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would he be the antic Beetlejuice? Or, the square-jawed, somewhat reluctant patriarch of Batman? Y’know, the daddy who makes it clear that nobody else is capable of saving the world so he’ll have to do it? The story rushed headlong into all the hard questions revolving around love, death and what gives life meaning, but they were overlain with the pop culture vagaries that make everything and everyone seem shallow these days.

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[Photo courtesy of New Regency Pictures]

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