Cinematically appealing

Rating: 9/10 (22 February 2018)

From the internationally proclaimed musical director from Whiplash, damian chazelle has come back strong with another musical film' LALA LAND.
storming 5 academy awards and 6 golden globes has proven how successful the movie is, besides, it gains it.
The movie starts with the song 'Another day of sun', with a group of people dancing in highway, the choreography itself is remarkable enough, but the real magic lies in the tracking shot throughout the whole song, without any editing. The cinematography by Linus Sandgren has not only stops at the tracking shot, but the use of natural lighting throughout the whole movie. The colour grading and the camera movement has created a tremendous nerves of visual sensation. Each songs blends into the music perfectly, with the camera following the choreography, showing each dancing movement clearly.
This doesn't stop the cinematic magic of Damien Chazzele. He himself is a musician, he knows the music well enough that he understand how music may engage the audience deep enough to make an impact. He finds Pasek and Paul to be the composer of the music soundtrack, the soundtrack won the academy award forest original soundtrack. After watching the movie, the songs and lyrics keeps popping out in my head, brainwashing, this is how the cinematic magic works.
Words can't describe how appealing the movie is. Some may say the plot is too realistic and the whole movie is overrated, but these opinions comes to be objective. Maybe the plot may not suites anyone's taste, but you can't deny the fact that this movie somehow brings a impact to people, letting people feeling nostalgic back to the 60s, where it claimed to be 'the golden age of Hollywood', after adapting ideas from 'Singing in the rain', 'the umbrellas of Cherbourg' and 'revel without a cause'. The usage of costume and colour somehow comprehend a special visual experience, making the movie colourful and strong in sense.
The special chemistry between Ryan gosling and Emma stone also reminds us of the reality nowadays, making us feeling someway desperate of the truth, where people are unable to follow their dreams, but to sacrifices lots in order to achieve our goal.
Emma stone has done a brilliant job of portraying the role of Mia, maybe she can't sing, but the acts and emotion of hers is undeniably relatable; While Ryan gosling, acting as the role of Sebastian, frankly, is a bit too ordinary.
Damien chazzele may be the new generation of musical director, bringing new era of musical film to Hollywood. Back in the 50s and 60s, when musical film are a hit, the hype ends in the 70s. Nowadays, less and less musical films are made, in hope of Damien chazzele, wishing he may bring back the hype of musical film back to Hollywood.