A Musical And More. About Having Dreams And Falling In Love.

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2016)

I'll give this movie a 10. To me it deserves that much. The movie has everything. Sure the musical aspect of the movie will not appeal to most people. After all, when people think musical, its either Les Miserable, Grease or Disney Films.
La La Land however is so much more. It is about having dreams of performing , about hope and of course about love.
Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian who can't afford to pay his rent because he can't find a stable gig. He dreams of opening his own Jazz bar and he has such a passion for jazz that you start to love jazz too. Jazz is dying and he is on a crusade to save it. Emma Stone on the other hand plays Mia who is an aspiring actress. However, she fails all of her auditions miserably. They meet and fall in love and the rest goes like how love stories goes. Except with singing and dancing.
Ryan Gosling is one of my favourite actors so it definitely helps that he is playing the lead role. And as he is also a good singer, it seems a perfect fit. Emma Stone on first impression seems like a different role than she normally gets. But she pulls it off perfectly. The chemistry that these two have on previous movies together can also be seen here.
The movie definitely has class. The musical scores and the songs especially the jazz. To be honest some of the musical scene might get a little bit draggy but thats only for the 40 mins when you're getting used to having a song sung by the actors after every new scene. It mellows down afterwards and gets bit more serious.
I love the pace of the movie because you get to know the characters and feel their motivation of why they love performing and why they choose to Act or play jazz. I left the movie charmed by it. It is a definite must-see. Not for everyone to be honest. But personally its up there with the notebook.