Cinema Hub on Instagram: ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" (2014) is a dark comedy-drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson, a washed-up Hollywood actor famous for playing Birdman, a superhero character in a film trilogy years earlier. Riggan attempts to revive his career and reclaim artistic credibility by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story. The film follows Riggan's str