It is significant that, in contrast to the final paragraph of the story when the kitchen is plunged into darkness, an earlier moment saw the afternoon sun flooding the room with a light which Nick describes as easy and generous. RIGGAN: This play is starting to feel like a miniature, deformed version of myself that just keeps following me around and, like, hitting me in the balls with, like a tiny little hammer.But is this ‘love’ either? Or is it lust and passion, which in the heady first days (and months) of romance we mistake for love? This is a question Carver’s narrative invites us to ask ourselves. Sound familiar? Riggan's suicide by drowning is interrupted by jellyfish, and his attempt with a gun just ends up blasting his nose off.īut what about how the play affects on a deeper level? How does his obsession with Raymond Carver's story change him? We're going to hand the mic to Riggan for this one: Riggan's character, Ed, tries and fails to kill himself twice: first with rat poison and a second time with a gun. He is either fully authentic or a complete phony, a man who embraces extremes as much as Mel does. Mike also thinks in these big black-and-white terms.
Then we have Mike, whose character Mel thinks love is absolute. You can't ask for a more striking parallel than that. We mention in her Character Analysis that Laura is pregnant during the course of the movie, and that the character of Laura (also called Laura) is pregnant in the play. Riggan's inability to live with his choices causes him to attempt suicide a few times, and Laura's inability to live with hers leads to an abortion. The "or not" she's talking about have parallels in the "real life" of the movie: (abortion) or erasing life (suicide). LAURA, PLAYED BY LAURA: I guess we make choices in life and we choose to live with them. There are lots of people not listening to each other, and Jake needs to talk some sense into Riggan about the Mike situation, just like Nick feels like his story needs to be heard. JAKE: Shut up! Just shut up for once and listen to me. Later in the hallway, Jake yells at Riggan: For once in your life, will you do me a favor and shut up for a minute. Dialogue ParallelsĬheck out how the dialogue this play-within-a-film is repeated offstage. So let's delve into some of the myriad parallels between Riggan's adaptation and Birdman itself. It's not like Iñárritu decided to pick a play out of a hat and somehow ended up with a short story he decided could be an adaptation even though it's just a bunch of people sitting around a table talking. What do we talk about when we talk about " What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"? The answer is actually almost as convoluted as the question.
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