The March of Oscar

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 Birdman (2014 US) Michael Keaton stars as an aging actor struggling to find relevance after years of playing a superhero named Birdman. Hmm I feel like this sounds kinda familiar. This picture really cleaned up at the Oscars and for good reason. To be clear the script was written by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, before it was cast. Keaton apparently questioned whether Inarritu was making fun of him with the script. Wouldn't' you have loved to be a fly on the wall there. Inarritu denied that was the case and Keaton was cast. uhhh Huh. sure. we will go with that. Director Inarritu originally wanted the whole film to be one long take because "real life does not have edits". Sir...sir.. I can personally assure you life is way more fun with edits. I have the life edit app and love it. You should try it. Get the R rated version though its way more fun. Although, the last update had a glitch and I got stuck in an edit doing dishes. Not fun. Anyway, cooler heads prevailed and they told Inarritu that was not possible. But cinematographer Immanuel Lubezki came really effing close. the transitions were so smooth that you just don't know there is a cut. I rewound the film several times to figure out how they did it.  At that point Lubezki was just showing off making the rest of us look bad. Asshole! He won the Oscar for best cinematography for that. Inarritu won best director and the film won best picture pushing out The Grand Budapest Hotel. Its a pretty stunning if not underrated film. Keaton killed it and they way it was shot with the reality TV style was hard as hell but he pulled it off. BTW the film is solid surrealism as Keaton's character is losing his mind. Find it on HBO or for rent on most streaming. Please Like Share and Subscribe. 

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