In the case of Bailey (Nykiya Adams), the 12-year-old heroine of Bird, Bailey has two men in her life. Both of them are boys in their minds, in one or the other way. A bird played by a tatted-up Barry Keoghan. Hunter is a paramour to Bailey and is a teen sometime before they begin to share a unit with her that is under the ownership of Bailey’s husband, developing an impairment that lasted throughout his descent. In bird, it is easier to find an anchor that is Kravitz. Childlike in the one sense, adolescent in the other, and most importantly, schizophrenic in pursuit. Bug appeared when he was barely grown up, usurping Bailey almost instantly. One day Bug decides to venture out. He bumps into aforementioned bull. Their collaboration starts as hostile but turns into something warmer after the Bull claims he was living next to his parents out of delusion. To this extent, Bailey has witnessed several versions of the landscape. Having been in northern Kent for quite a while began to manifest boyishness slowly but steadily regardless of how non-contextual it was with adult masculinity.
For example, Bailey’s mom (Jasmine Jobson) has a scary boyfriend and lives in a run-down house together with Bailey’s three younger siblings because the situation is so common, Hunter and his acquaintances created a vigilante group that avenges abuse by visiting the perpetrators.
Bird is Andrea Arnold’s new work. It is a scripted project for her after American Honey. Other than showing a lot of struggle, this film portrays a fantasy world that is beautiful in its own way. Bird While serving as a coming-of-age film for Bailey, Bird has kitchen-sink drama elements and even a fairy tale touch. Bird looks like it was a dream that Arnold had but she was able to transfer the dream into reality in parts. The last few years were spent by Arnold doing couple of documentaries and directing shows. Bird is breathtaking and has quite some mesmerizing beauty. As the film starts, one sees luminous lights reconstructing how Arnold hopes the viewer sees the film. Punk blasting away and Bailey as well as Bug speeding around on a scooter shows the aggression of the film. One cannot help but remember the 2009 mother-daughter portrait of Arnold when watching Bird. The problem however I thought stood with us was it portrayed Arnold as an artist who couldn’t connect dots or streamline her ideas.
The most deceptive element of them all is Bird himself. If Rogowski’s astonishingly unbalanced performance as the bad lover who cheats on both Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Passages is considered one of the most remarkable performances of the year, what he does in Bird crosses the edges of decency more often than one would like to believe. Setting aside a handheld device, his character seems to have traveled from some faraway land; all he has traveled with is his unique look, a gentle personality full of quirks, and a strange smile, which helps him play out the part no matter how soft the role is. To eliminate the risk of over-sentimentality building up in the film, Arnold also has her technique which is to film Bird on the rooftops of buildings which makes for quite an interesting-looking motif within the film, especially when he does it while completely naked.
Arnold further noted that during Sinatra’s drop, Davila’s Bird was released, her first frame was that of a roof comprising of “a tall, thin man with a long penis.” While an undoubtedly jarring sight meant to unsettle the audience, Bird still bluntly overlooks how drastically it changes the tone to have a completely naked male looking out a window at a young girl who is sleeping.
Keoghan also plays, as a more mellow Bug, who dances around the room sans shirt, marries a woman he just met three months ago while singing with Blur at what appears to be a wedding, wails about stashing a money-making toad, and most importantly gets into the character well, being calm and yet being quite erratic at the same time. Nevertheless, Bird is owned by Bailey and first time Adams who quite characteristically impresses when she tries to be inconsistent herself though the better alternative for the movie would have been to present just one of the relationships in a more holistic manner rather than discussing each one. In a way, Bailey is a shapeshifter too, being somewhere around 12-13 and androgynously built, she also looks to be gender fluid as well. She still does not quite know what kind of real-life space she wants to inhabit, and Adams characterizes her as a person who has learned to be circumspect yet comes across children’s eyes when exposed to the world for the first time, be it seeing birds in the light of a new morning or showcasing fishes in the shallows during a beach trip.
There is a reminder in Bird that it’s important to maintain that innocent perspective and that all the time even in adulthood.
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