Dream like Real in La la land !

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2017)

From the National Anthem to the musical, everything seemed pretty new to me. Starting with a song, it brings so much liveliness to what is being shown. It starts with a lot of vehicles stuck in traffic. A woman steps out of her car and starts dancing to the song playing in her car. The old vintage title card, La La Land appeared. It was so chilling.
SUMMER. The camera slowly moves into a car where we see a girl and there is loud honking. Even the honking seems of a character, the loud old-fashioned Plymouth horns. A young handsome man, seated in a majestic old fashioned car, is in a hurry. He rat-runs through the space near the girl's car, at which she's not very pleased. She has one hand holding the phone she is talking into and gives the middle finger of the other hand to the young man, which he didn't mind. Little did they know that they would meet.
The movie follows the lives of Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling). Mia, an aspiring actress, works as a barista in a small coffee place in LA Hollywood, and manages to go for auditions, as well. Sebastian is a jazz musician in town, who struggles too. Their characters are bipolar, their struggles being the only uniting factor.
Every object in the movie plays a character by itself. For instance, Mia's house. Her house is no normal house,being decorated with posters of classics like Casablanca, showing her interest for classics. Her dressing is similar – colorful,vibrant and over the top – to her house. The dressing mirror reflects herself and her character too.
Sebastian is annoyed. He feels that people don't understand what jazz music conveys and that they don't discern the fact that jazz music is dying.
Emma Stone tries to make into Hollywood by making it to every acting audition possible. She is a really good actor but is humiliated every time. It makes us pity her, when the casting officials order sandwiches while she acts and when she's done, the director tells her, "Oh, we're fine."- REJECTED.
AUTUMN. Mia is at a pool party with her friends. We get to know the characters of the movie pretty well. Linus Sandgren handles lights to perfection. The camera shots are amazing. The first person camera follow the people diving, into the pool, which is awesome to watch. The way this long movie is cut, the pencil sharp cuts here and there, is beautiful. The production design and the artwork in the movie is so intimate to the feelings. The movie is intentionally made to look like a dreamy, fairy tale type romance which takes place in Los Angeles. They are both artists and naturally are dreamers.
Damien Chazelle is the magician who made every frame of his poetry glimmer so high up in the stars. The music in the movie is so pleasing and 'City of Stars' was especially brilliant. The orchestra was so beautifully set. The movie emanates the feelings of the characters through music . The film is so perfectly staged. When Mia and Sebastian talk or dance(which seemed like the same sometimes),the camera travels with them,mostly one shot and creates so much fluidity. The lighting changes all by itself, according to their senses. Ah, this is love.
The way the scenes at Griffith Observatory was shot is simply a miracle. With the music, their dance and how the place is so unconsciously lit with a sense of craving love which is endless and how the galaxy adds poetic metaphors to create on spell bounding inference to how movies are being shot. "They don't make movies like this anymore" is what could be thrived upon. But in the end,things need to go the way a dream does. They need to wake up , get ready for work and there might be not much love if you choose to wake up . Thats REALITY. Though they both wake up,reality is likely to be different to the 'La La' in the land.
×Rishi×