Amazing movie!

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2017)

La La Land is an amazing movie, and easily one of my all-time favorites. There is a heavy amount of importance placed on colors throughout the film, often used to portray character emotion or to foreshadow the outcome of imminent events. Though the color foreshadowing was occasionally intentionally misleading, making the movie all the more fun! There were many scenes in the movie where extremely vibrant colors were brought to the foreground to really deliver an effective message or emotion. There was also a plethora of scenes that used color as a mood modifier in the background, so that it doesn't jump out at you nearly as much as the foreground color placement, but so that it still has an amazing impact setting this apart from all other movies released in 2016. I very much enjoyed the use of camera angles throughout this movie. More often than not, they were used to portray a light-hearted sarcastic tone to scenes that could have otherwise felt dry. This effect is present so much that without it, I doubt the main characters would have found any interest in each other. Camera angles also provided the obvious added bonus of making you feel those emotional scenes all that much more, especially when combined with the movie's (again) excellent use of color. I enjoyed the use of far shots to make you feel disconnected from the characters emotionally, there are very few in this movie, but they are used extremely well. Another stand out example of the amazing camera angle usage in this movie is the panoramic shot of the female protagonist during her final interview, which truly gave the emotion of a transformation occurring, the turning over of a new leaf in a sense, as her life really started to take off in the direction she had always hoped it would. There seems to have been significant effort put in to making every scene as perfect as it could be. It feels as though a lot of time went into making sure that every scene had exactly the setup to deliver the message exactly as it was intended. The whole movie gives the feeling of, well, watching a movie. This is shown in the way that things come up in the order that they feel they should, even to a comedic affect at times, and the often times extravagant scenes or props. For example, when the protagonist couple is leaving the coffee shop and walks into a movie set, setup right next to the coffee shop. The set is comedic in both its placement and lack of dramatic introduction. It's not exactly a defining moment in the movie, but the scene is referred to and referenced at later points in the movie. This gives it the backing to have justified receiving a moment of individual introduction. Instead, it, like many other sets throughout the movie, are introduced in a lackluster kind of fashion, which helps to lend to the almost constant sarcastic undertone of the movie in a spectacular way. I would highly recommend that anyone who hasn't already go see this movie ASAP!