Does it really fly?
***This article containsBirdmanspoilers.
Because he died die…didnt he?
Still, even I have my own theory about whatBirdmanreally means in the end…
So did Riggan fly?
Every time that Riggan or Birdman causes a supernatural occurrence, Inarritu casts heavy doubt on its plausibility.
This reflects an earlier moment where he destroyed Sams intentionally wrong flower selection.
This suggests that Riggan did not use superpowers to destroy the glass around him, but his bloodied palm.
Or worse: hes an actor.
Woody Allen is one of the American filmmakers enamored by this concept and he uses it quite often.
TheTimesTabitha Dickens (Lindsay Duncan) dresses Riggan down as a child that hands off awards for cartoons.
He is an artist, dammit!
And now, he will die to prove it.
But for all its worth, nobody cares what she has to say after the first paragraph.
As for why Sam thought she saw her father fly?
Well, as Mike Shiner already explained to her, shes special.
Obviously Sam has had her own coping issues beforeBirdmanbegins since she spent months in rehab.
However, her reaction to her father is hardly so banal.
), keeps him from accepting that hes not special.
Hell prove otherwise, even if it kills him.
She has that special kind of madness that Mike views as magical.
So the magic continues after her father makes sidewalk spaghetti, and Sam sees him flying.
She has been lulled into accepting things from his perspective.
In the end, however, this is just my theory.
Or another still might be that 60 is the new 30, motherfucker, and Birdmen reallycanfly!
But this was my takeaway from an ending that is intentionally left open to interpretation.
***you’ve got the option to fly with me on Twitter@DCrowsNest.
This article was originally published on Feb. 17, 2015.
