The perfect paradox of La La Land is showing how love can be so nostalgic and touchable, yet magical all at the same time. It brought back a childlike sense of love and imagination wrapped up in movie magic, heart-gripping show tunes and a story you knew may not end how you want it to.
Although I am about seven years late, like many others, I too was absolutely heartbroken over the tear-jerking ending of the iconic film, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, La La Land. An ending so beautiful, yet so tragic. An ending so heart-rending and ironic, yet so realistic.
Whether La La Land's ending plays as sad or happy comes down to how much faith you have in happy endings in the first place: but either way, it sends you from the cinema with tears in your eyes, a song in your heart, and a clear six inches of thin air between the soles of your shoes and the pavement.
The La La Land ending is one of the most devastating things I've ever seen. How do you guys feel about it? I had to watch it again a few years later to realize it was about a journey to their true love of their careers not each other.
Mia And Sebastian's Love Story Is A Modern Day Tragedy
While Mia and Sebastian's story initially seems to be one of love, it has now become a modern-day tragedy that I'm sure many people of my generation can relate to.
La La Land's ending subverts romantic expectations and emphasizes the importance of pursuing one's dreams, even if it comes at the expense of a relationship. Mia and Sebastian broke up because they both wanted to pursue their dreams, showing that sometimes sacrifices must be made for personal fulfillment.
Notably, La La Land was also criticized for its lack of gay characters on the basis that, well, there are a lot of gay people in Los Angeles but none in the film.
Maybe this is why La La Land appeals so much to men - they identify with Sebastian's "raw passion", his wounded masculinity, his fixation on his craft. Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman dicily praised Gosling as "not 'a pansy dancer'; he is still a guy with a strong character".
There is a charming final song-and-dance number in La La Land, but it comes too late to save the movie. Overall, La La Land is a half-baked pastiche of a movie with forgettable music, lackluster dancing, thin story, and insincere character development. SKIP IT!
Kissing; a couple wakes up together in bed. Social drinking by adults. Parents need to know that La La Land is a beautiful, moving romantic musical set in modern-day Los Angeles, with the feel of old-time Hollywood.
However, La La Land is telling a very specific kind of love story, the type we have rarely seen onscreen: it's a love story about two people who were meant to inspire one another, not to spend the rest of their lives together. And that love — that real, relatable love — is one some us can relate to.
See “La La Land” for yourself, and you may just rediscover an old dream of your own. While this film is rated PG-13, Dove, unfortunately, cannot award this wonderful film our Seal of Approval due to brief strong language and moderate use of alcohol, mostly from secondary characters.
The score is vibrant, the songs hummable, the visuals eye-popping, the leads irresistible and the beginning (and ending) unforgettable. “La La Land” whisks us away into a dream while also letting us think about what we value in life.
Nearly philosophical in the frosty abstraction of its melancholy. The final scene is two people who were once in love running into each other for the first time in many years, and neither of them bats an eye.
There are musical numbers in La La Land, but this is also a credible showbiz saga (it should go without saying that this movie nails Los Angeles), a witty and nimble comedy, and a romantic melodrama. La La Land has a much smarter and richer screenplay than most of the musicals its critics are looking to judge it by.
Although the twosome were never romantically involved in real life, Gosling and Stone developed a fast friendship on set of the rom-com. “She's everything, all the time,” Gosling shared with MTV News at the Crazy, Stupid, Love premiere in July 2011. “There's no one like her.
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" is a song composed by Justin Hurwitz with lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for the musical film La La Land (2016). Sung by American actress Emma Stone in her role as Mia, the emotional ballad forms the film's climax.
La La Land stands out from other Hollywood romances because it is a realistic portrayal of love that many people can relate to. The work of cinematographer Linus Sandgren in “La La Land” is breathtaking. With its vibrant colors, creative camera work, and meticulous attention to detail, the movie is a visual feast.
Music writers have some serious issues with how jazz is presented in the film, from Vulture's “'La La Land' is clueless about what is actually happening in jazz” to Slate's “'La La Land' may be a great movie about dreams, but about jazz, it's a muddle of cliches.” 4) The “white savior” aspect.
This movie demonstrates the dilemma people face in pursuing their dreams while giving up what they love and making sacrifices. Achieving your dreams sometimes comes at a price. It hurts to see the characters fall in love, then split off into the world to perhaps never see each other again.
It is even fairly feminist in that Mia instigates the relationship, pursuing Sebastian several times until he allows himself to be won. But as the movie progresses, its division of focus along gender lines becomes troublingly skewed. Sebastian's story line is devoted to his musical talent, passion, and expertise.
Sex: Not bad. Passionate kissing, Mia and Sebastian share an apartment together, but when common sense, "couple wakes up in bed" it's not like in west side story where they didn't wear any clothes or are stripped to bra and underwear.
