Michael Keaton and Edward Norton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
We are made to imagine what Sam sees, and then to question what we have imagined:
-First we imagine her seeing him flying, as a triumph of some sort (art, celebrity, self-integration, or redemption)
-Second we realize that this is impossible because Riggan's powers have been established as hallucinations; the movie ends with an unreal yet hopeful solution (whether artful, or lying, or winking) to a real and sad problem (in short: a mentally ill Riggan committing suicide to go out 'on top', when really he has "confused being admired with being loved" as his ex-girlfriend says).
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