Birdman is over the top in emotional engagement. An actor, Michael Keaton, has written, and is directing and acting in a Broadway play based upon a Raymond Carver story. It's a full-on, let it go performance by Michael Keaton and many others is this fantastic cast, including Edward Norton, Emma Stone and Zach Galifianicis. Keaton is a past prime movie star with severe doubts about whether he can perform and survive. There is an amazing scene here between him and Emma Stone, playing his daughter, where she slices him to pieces and he seems to feel better. Clearly, one of the best movies of the year.
Then there's baseball. The Giants won the World Series with an extraordinary surge of talent and sheer grit behind their superstar pitcher, Madison Bumgarner, who, aside from his smooth-whip pitch delivery, is so calm and stoic, which is an aspired-to trait that is common on this team and in this sport. What a contrast to Birdman!
As for Snowden and Citizen Four, read the New Yorker piece on Laura Poitras, the director. It is far more gripping.
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