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RE: Spoiler alert...

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mkuller

In Reply to: RE: Spoiler alert... posted by Billy Wonka on November 24, 2014 at 15:25:37

...that didn't look like the nose of someone who shot off his nose.
I thought all of the psychokinetics, flying and whenever he was in his birdman suite were his mind - fantasies/delusions, mostly driven by alcohol.
So I thought he actually killed himself on stage and the last delusion he had was the hospital room scene.
Yes, he was finally free.

Edits: 11/24/14

Follow Ups:

Yup - geoffkait 05:44:50 11/28/14 (1)
You might be on to something. The ending was at least ambiguous. If he had only succeeded in shooting his nose off, he would have either bled to death on stage or would have been screaming in agony. The comment by his wife ex-wife that she never saw him so relaxed while he was waiting to go on for the first real performance was perhaps intended to highlight that he had in fact decided to kill himself and that decision released him from his depression and guilt and freed him. The gun looked real and the clip he put in the gun appeared to have live ammo in it. Not the red blood fake bullets lhe other gun had in it.
- RE: Yup - Mark Man 08:07:52 11/28/14 (0)
  I thought the gun was real...and I thought he was dead...I was surprised by the hospital scene AND that he still HAD a nose to bandage...but by the end of the movie the suspension of disbelief had been smashed and left me going just HHHHhhhhhmmmmm...
  
  The ambiguity and fantasy elements are part of what makes this movie special...
  
  Thanks
  Mark
Never thought the last scene was a fantasy...but I now I have to think about that... - Mark Man 16:08:06 11/24/14 (1)
I thought he was back to reality...and the nose bandage, ironically, made him look the persona he was trying to kill...the Birdman...as this was all that was left...hence free...
thanks
Mark
- RE: Never thought the last scene was a fantasy...but I now I have to think about that... - Billy Wonka 06:18:28 11/25/14 (0)
  The bandaging screamed Bird Man. Perhaps stripping it off showed him the ugliness of his ways that forced him to escape this life. Emma may have seen his magnificent spirit soaring. Or maybe the sumbitch was really flying.

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