I came out of the closet because of this movie!

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2017)

By that I mean the musical closet (gotcha)! What a visual masterpiece, some say being critical about something shows how much respect one has about what is being criticized (worthy of critique), I feel La La Land has received quite a bit of mixed views, because somehow it portrait a telltale which is very dream like if not unrealistic. Is that really the point? La La Land praises the very medium it is being portrayed through, film and cinema, it does so in a thoroughly enjoyable way, by delivering the panache, colour splash and the dazzle most of us actually dream of. It is an optimistic vision, in a world full of anger. It is a nostalgic protest, a loud praise for musicals of old and it is beautiful. The cinematic execution is out of this world, the production, music, fidelity, filmography, costumes the love for the form is transpiring through the silver-screen. It makes you want to dance, sing and celebrate, are those feelings hard to enjoy? It also makes you sad and angry, at times it surprises, it is FUN. It delivers all that with what I would call a perfectly fitting ending. The scene on the clouds, why care if it was corny? All the awkward bits play into our own subconscious anxieties and insecurities, at least for some. Oh well... a solid bloody 10!