I get the full worth of a month's Netflix subscription just by watching this.

Rating: 9/10 (3 September 2016)

This is a standard Hollywood production, yet this movie doesn't include expensive special effects, luxurious motion scenes like running on cars, or a old-school I-did-it declaration made by the protagonists. All the characters are painfully mortal, emotional human beings, their struggles are presented to the audience with a magnifying glass, which makes the movie seems painfully real and heart-shaking.
Gretta, Dan and Dave are all great artists. Although two of them are under appreciated, they clashes with each other emotionally and make splendid music with other random under appreciated musicians around the city. Dan has imaginations unparalleled to anyone else in this movie, which automatically plays the chorus in his brain when Gretta sings that seemingly plain ballad she created herself. All Gretta hears is the disapproving noise down the stage, but Dan hears the music symphony that can sell ten million records. This is what makes the story possible.
My favorite scene is when Dave plays the perfect version of Gretta and his love song, surrounded by a thousand adoring eyes of his fan, while earnestly beckoning Gretta to sing with him. This is like a scene in modern version Cinderella, if Gretta actually accepted the offer. She cuts this relationship in immense pain, then throws herself into the freezing wind without a pause. On the stage, when Dave realizes that Gretta is gone, sadness overflows from his face, crushes his serene expression and trickles down his eyes. Line of his face becomes more distinguished from the strong stage lights that are ready to devour everything, his pain is so visible that it cuts in my flesh. I will give a 9 for what the movie makes me feel in that half a second.
This is a wonderful movie, thank Netflix very much for buying its copy right.