Rating: 5 shining stars
Movie Description:
Mia, an aspiring
actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a
jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as
success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile
fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in
each other threaten to rip them apart.
My Review:
Okay let me just
start by saying how excited I was to hear that Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were
acting together again! EEEEEEEK! I loved these two as Jacob and Hannah in Crazy Stupid Love and I loved them just
as much in La La Land.
Now, I hadn’t
seen any trailers before viewing La La
Land; all I knew was that it’s a movie musical and I hadn’t set any
expectations but if I had, I can tell you now that they would have been blown
out the window!
Let’s kick off
with the jaw-dropping, enthusiastic and colourful opening number! Cars have
been stuck in awful L.A. traffic when drivers break into a song called “Another
Day of Sun”, jumping from their cars and dancing on the freeway. The song tells
of how each day brings new hope for young aspiring artists. WOAH! This opening
sequence completely blew me away and I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face,
it’s so perfectly choreographed. Definitely a fantastic way to kick off this
movie and give the audience an insight as to what the rest of the movie would
look like.
It was simply
impossible not to fall in love with La La
Land, the amazing chemistry between Gosling and Stone has been developed
over the previous 2 movies they’ve starred opposite each other in. And their
chemistry truly shines through the relationship between Mia and Seb.
After the
ensemble introduces the audience to a city of dreamer’s, we meet our two
protagonists; Sebastian, a pianist struggling to keep a stable life yet also
trying to keep jazz music alive in a world surrounded by technology and
ignorance towards the once all-popular music. Mia is an aspiring actress who’s
constantly attending auditions in hopes of her big break into the acting
industry.
La La Land is a story of artistic passion, how easy
it is to derail from your dream, but it also shows a different side to being in
the entertainment industry. We’re so used to seeing the glamorous, perfect
perceptions of the industry and very rarely get to see what happens behind closed
doors, the struggles faced, opportunities missed and the effect it has on these
artists.
The soundtrack of
La La Land is stunning! Justin
Hurwitz has created some incredible pieces of music that capture the love
between Mia and Seb, their love for jazz music, and the fun, colourful
atmosphere that La La Land encompasses.
I certainly
recommend La La Land to those of you
who have a passion for musicals and beautiful love stories.
“It’s easy to let the world get you down
sometimes, especially in a year like this one. It’s easy to think that dreams
don’t come true, and that love only exists in movies. “La La Land” serves to
remind us that movies can still be magical, and they can still provide the
channel for us to see magic in the world around us. It’s not so much another
day in the sun, as the characters sing in that opening number, but the dreams
of the night before, the ones we wake up and try to fulfill, that keep us
dancing.”- www.rogerebert.com
Think Lovely
Thoughts xo
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