La La Land - Review

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2017)

Year: 2017 Director: Damien Chazelle
La La Land, a musical like I've never heard before. Let's talk about the plot, a novice actress and a frustrated pianist fall in love in California, in the city where both of them try to achieve their dreams. Talking about the introduction, the film opens with a big piece of music and dance that doesn't do another thing than prepare the terrain for what is coming. Mia (Stone) is a charismatic women with the dream of becoming an actress and Sebastian (Gosling) is a jazz pianist that dreams with opening his own club of jazz music. The movie give you shots of chemical in some parts that make us arrive to the scene where they finally meet and the well created qualities of the characters make them fall in love. The development of the film is technically the story of a couple fighting against their own and unique dreams, but the narration through songs and dances transforms the movie into a refined and entertaining production. The pursuit of their dreams border them to finish their relation but knowing that none of them would be in this part of their lives without the other, the scene of the fight in the dinner is good but if there would be something that I won't forget, that is the scene where they meet again at the club 5 years later, they only see each other imagining a life together if only they had taken different decisions. The performance of both main characters is excellent, I'm impressed of how good, humans and relatable characters Chazelle had created. Mia is insecure and strong at the same time while Seb is a man with a deep love for jazz music and always wants to feel that he has the control, even if he doesn't. Gosling playing the piano is fantastic and the way the camera film a dance scene, moving while the character does and the organization of that amount of dancers is amazing too.
Finally, La La Land is a beautiful film about love and disappointment, the story tell us how hard is to achieve yours dreams and how strong the life can hit you. Life is simple until you find the right person, everything becomes more complicated and pretty at the same time. Both of the characters established the foundations of what they are at the end and tell u show important is love to achieve your dreams and how important are your dreams to achieve love. An inspiring movie about the sacrifices that some people do to get that sacred thing called success.