Birdman

If you do not remember the 1990s, or you are seeing this in passing. The casting of Michael Keaton who played Batman, is great touch. Keaton is great actor. The silver screen has missed his presence.
The Oscar nomination was well deserved. The scenes in which, Keaton barely contains his contempt for a poor actor, and then has his performance picked apart by Edward Norton-Norton playing a asshole of a lead actor.

We explore similar territory to Black Swan , a film which I enjoyed very much also. We see a descent into madness. Riggan cannot escape his past. Riggn's  performance as Birdman follows him everywhere. Its the picture on his wall the crew present him with. A picture which cannot be taken down, it interrupts his drinks with Norton as somone asks him to pose

It is nice to see Lindsey Duncan getting Hollywood work. (Waters of Mars,),  There are some wry observations on the Theatre. Do not piss off the crew. We see people changing back stage mirroring this are observations on social media. The scene where riggan keaton having nipped outside to smoke, gets locked out and has to slip back into the cinema is recorded for posterity on you-tube His daughter tells him it is power.

I liked it a lot.