Can Anyone explain me the ending ?

Here's an idea. Earlier in the film, Riggan's subconscious alterego Birdman tells him to make Birdman 4, which will bring him the fame and validation he wants.

At the end of the film, his lawyer tells him that because he shot himself onstage, the play received critical acclaim and will become a huge financial success performed many times all over the world. Riggan's wildest dreams and aspirations for the play have come true, but he does not find this fulfilling. However, he finally shares a moment of emotional connection with his daughter.

When she leaves, he jumps out of a window, seemingly having turned into Birdman and flown away. His daughter returns and worries he has committed suicide, but then looks up into the sky and smiles as though she sees him flying.

Rather than suggesting an actual suicide, the ending seems to be symbolic of Riggan finding fulfillment in gaining his daughter's love, which relates to the quote from the beginning of the film. The "second suicide" seems to harken to the short story the play-within-the-movie is based on, in which the main character takes two suicide attempts to die.

However, instead of dying, Riggan's "second suicide" is simply symbolic of his giving up the endless rollercoaster/unfulfilling life of seeking validation through his artistic achievements. He "becomes" Birdman at the end, the opposite of the part of his self that wanted artistic and critical validation. He doesn't have to be this fake artist he was attempting to be anymore. He can just go back to doing what's easy and be himself, finding validation in his repaired relationship with his daughter.

One might interpret his transformation into Birdman at the end as a rejection of continuing with the play and instead an acceptance of doing Birdman 4 like the masses want him to. However, since that would be unlikely to cause his daughter to smile as she does, I think his transformation into Birdman is a repudiation of his need for artistic validation and a new commitment to being a good father.

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Thank you for your Post, it encouraged me to delete this movie from my DVR, and confirmed the fact that this movie is not worth watching and not worth my time trying to analyze it. Also, the comments and reviews of this movie are far more entertaining than the movie itself.

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It's either a movie about reality or it's not.

If he has superpowers, then why is he a has-been, risking the last of his money, his reputation, and everything on this play? If he has superpowers, none of what he goes through is necessary. If he has superpowers, then why not make the door open so he can release his robe and not have to walk through the streets in his underwear? If he has superpowers, then he can direct the review and punish the critic for her prejudice against him. If he has superpowers, then his fears should be meaningless.

He's a man fighting depression because his career took a turn that he never intended and robbed him (through choices he made) of a chance to be seen as a serious actor. He has become, as the critic said, a celebrity. His fame as a comic book superhero opened one door and closed another. This is a movie about what it's like to be an actor and whether you are willing to "sell out" or not, and if you do, what that means to you. And what acting is really about; is it art? Or is it about fame? Is it about making money? Or is it about being admired for your gifts, your talent, your ability, not the role you play?

The world of the artist is a mixture of make-belief and reality. An actor is paid to make believe -- that's the combination. This film is about what that does to one man. he got incredibly lucky (depending on one's point of view) and incredibly famous (a given, apparently) in a role he came to hate because he thought it diminished (and it probably did) his reputation as a serious and talented actor. He "sold out", and this film shows what that means, at least to him. Perhaps the "unexpected virtue of ignorance" is that to some, being ignorant about "selling out" is a virtue.....at least to those who can live with it. Ultimately Riggan Thomson couldn't.

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Sam didnt see Riggan flying, If you notice Sam sits on the ledge of the building through out the movie. She is simply laughing at the irony of it all.

One crazy theory that occurred to me? That the movie is essentially a story told from the daughter's point of view. Essentially, what we're seeing is the retelling her father's life story after his death, told in a way where he dramatically goes from *beep* father to misunderstood genius with super powers. Because people often need to speak well of the dead. And because she wants to believe that his life actually did matter.