Episode 69: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Beyond the Screenplay
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The One Take in Birdman
The central question of this movie is what is real and does something have to be real in order to be virtuous or art if you want to think of it that way, right? So I think that that's kind of at the heart of the movie. The one take doesn't seem to be doing anything other than forcing us to grapple with all of the different pieces of this theme or different angles on this theme that are being explored.
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