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What is the relationship with birdman?


Please explain.

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I think the relationship was left deliberately obscure, so we could come up with our own explanations. As much as I gathered, the boy (birdman) was a recovering drug addict who was going through a recovering process in his small flat (same thing is done in Trainspotting) and the girl kind of supported him in that. But in the end it seemed the boy decided to end his life, for some reason. And apparently the girl just left his dead body in the flat without telling anybody about it.

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I believe the relationship between them was meant to illustrate Lucy's lack of emotional depth. They weren't able to move beyond the polite stage, and there could be no future for them.

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