LaLaLand
LaLaLand
“People like it when other people do things that they are passionate about”. They have a fight when they discuss how to move forward into the future. ‘City of stars, are you shining just for me?’ he asks. Then he focuses on his own career. He is sensitive, he has the courage to dream. In fact, they met while they were both pursuing their dreams. They have done the job of dreaming ahead of time :)
Writing is like that too. It is similar to the jobs of these two young people: a musician and an artist. Why does one want to be an artist? What is it about acting, which appeals to someone? Perhaps it gives someone the possibility to get out of her own skin. To be someone else for a while, and to tell a story. The heroine in the movie decides to write her own play, at some stage. And it seems like a good one. In the setting, on the stage, there is an Eiffel Tower painting. It lights up. It's in the background.
LaLaLand starts off as any Hollywood movie. There is a man and a woman. The setting is beautiful. A rare shade of purple accompanies us almost all the time throughout the movie. It is the colour of sunset in that city. But there are impossibilities; only about achieving one’s dream. It’s difficult to get a job in Hollywood as the capitalistic state of affairs holds it. The heroine is the same actress as in 'the irrational man'. One challenge captured in one story, as opposed to many others, does not make a movie a bad one. In fact, not at all. The story is gripping. And it does not have this fake promise of a perfect teleological endpoint. That is, it is not a happy ending. But it does, on the other hand, offer an alternative ending. One which everything actually could be better. As the audience, I guess you pick the reading you choose. The ending you want to have is the true one.
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