This is a film analysis of the movie The Bird Cage

br Film Analysis : The Bird Cage

In the year 1996 , Mike Nichols decided to produce and direct the film version of the highly successful 1978 stage play La Cage Aux Follies Geared towards the western tastes of the American audience , he called the movie The Bird Cage and presented the public with a hilarious yet informative movie about a gay man who fathers a son after an affair with a woman . The film showcases the brilliant talent of Robin Williams as Armand Goldman , father to Val Goldman as portrayed by Dan Futterman

Nathan Lane flawlessly essays the role of Albert Goldman , the wife ' involved in the homosexual relationship with Armand Christine Baranski plays Katherine Archer , the biological mother of Val who had a one night stand with the openly gay Armand

The movie gives us a glimpse into the reality that gay bashing and fear of homosexuals is really an unfounded fear that society insists on propagating rather than understanding that just because a person is homosexual , it does not mean he stops being a real live person . Any homophobic person who views the movie must do so while making the effort to keep an open mind about the . The reality is that there is nothing to fear from these people . They , just like any normal person continuously struggles for acceptance and they are normal functioning human beings . They are not an illness , nor a curse from god . Since Val was raised in a homosexual household , he is quite comfortable with his father and stepmother ' because they function as a family unit Proving therefore that the dynamics of a family exists regardless of whether the child is raised in a same sex or normal couple household . To Val , there is nothing strange about his family and he is highly confident of his sexuality . His beliefs about how normal his household is get shaken the day he gets engaged to Barbara Keeley ( Calista Flockhart , the daughter of Senator Kevin Keeley , founder of the Coalition for Moral , as the name of the organization implies , the good senator would never approve of his daughter marrying a man raised in a homosexual household . In an effort to gain the approval of the senator for their engagement , Val must convince Armand to pretend to be a straight heterosexual for just one night and pretend to be a man with Katherine at his side

As the night progresses and the best laid plans of Val begin to unravel and his secret threatens to become exposed with the arrival of his grandmother , who is really Albert Goldman in drag , Val realizes how unique his confusing family really is and that it does not matter if he was raised by 2 homosexuals . He eventually comes clean and everything works out in the end

The Bird Cage is a movie that carries with it a very serious message regarding homophobia and the society that at the time could still be considered intolerant of gay partnerships . Indeed a lot...