Left me speechless !!

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2017)

We Indians love musicals and each movie we make irrespective of the language, has songs and dances. Very rare we make a song less movie.
But hats off to Damien Chazelle for writing and directing a musical which beats us in our own game. After watching La La Land, I wondered why we couldn't make a movie like this with the kind of talent Bollywood and rest of the many regional language film industries India has.
I don't know where to start about La La Land. The story of young struggling actress and a Jazz musician in LA could have been a run of the mill film but Damien is fine writer. So he does include the clichés but also keeps small twists and turns in the story. He tells the story in forms of the seasons in LA and how life changes like the seasons.
And when we audience think that all is fine, he beautifully delivers the hammer blow at the end which left me speechless. When I left the theatre, I was wondering how my life is at the moment and how my life could have been if some dreams had come true. My introspection is the result of power of writing. Pity he didn't won an Oscar for writing.
Every frame in the movie looks like a painting and the movie deserves the Oscar for cinematography. And the music is outstanding.
Gosling and Stone are a fine couple on screen and their chemistry lifts this film to another level. Both of fabulous actors. Stone beautifully shows the pain of a struggler while Gosling shows the unhappiness inspite achieving success.
Whether the film should have won the Best film, well after seeing Moonlight I can tell. But its a beautiful film that the reminds us that life will always have surprises.