I watched La La Land in Sanfan in December. I went to watch it with two friends on the first night of the show. After the end, my friends called Uber and Lyft respectively and left. I lived closer and went to take the subway home.
When I walked out of the subway station, it was almost midnight, and the street was very empty. There were one or two people coming from the opposite side. Other than that, there were only street lights. Although I have walked this road countless times, and I would go home from get off work almost every day, but suddenly, out of nowhere, an inexplicable loneliness rose from my heart, as if I was instantly pulled back to the movie. Mia found the car after attending the party. The night when I was dragged away and had to walk home by myself.
Ah, it turns out that I still didn't appear in the movie.
There is no companion, no car, and a way home after bidding farewell to the excitement. When passing by a street bar, I looked into the bar like in a movie, hoping to see a good-tempered man playing the piano.
That someone in the crowed.
Every one of us who has just arrived in a big city hopes to be discovered, appreciated, meet noble people, explore our potential, prove that we are good, worthy of being loved, and full of hope.
Except you don't always find that someone.
The first moment was a moment of confusion and frustration in this city.
I sent a short comment after watching the movie.
A friend saw and asked me, so who did he think of?
Who do you think of? Thinking of the beautiful girl in the theater but dare not look at her profile, thinking of the poems that came to mind when she woke up late at night, thinking of a spring night, taking pictures on the beach, chatting and laughing, thinking of putting them in the car on an autumn afternoon With Jazz, I slowly drove through the golden streets of Sanfan with the people I like.
So I said, I didn't think of anyone in particular, but a lot of myself.
What I like very much is the section where Sister Stone and Commander Gao walked on the top of the mountain to find a car. Two people who were already attracted by each other hardly insisted that they didn’t feel each other, but they also questioned the other’s lack of feeling. , Full of drama.
But this is actually a portrayal of love in our generation, isn't it?
"If you like a person, you can't show too much sense of need, otherwise you will scare the other person away." "In a relationship, you must keep a certain distance and give each other space." These common senses of modern urban love often make people feel uncomfortable. Express your true strongest emotion too much, or express it selectively.
One small detail: At the end, Sister Shitou said, ah, my car is here, do you want to take you for a while if your car is parked far? Commander High said, oh no, my car is nearby. Then Sister Stone drove away. Commander High walked for a long time, walked back to where they had just started, and got in the car.
The second moment is about our duplicity in front of love in this era.
In the days after watching the movie, I started to listen to the original soundtrack of the movie over and over again. Traveling in Bolivia during the New Year, I feel like I have to write something to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. After thinking about it, I extracted a paragraph of the lyrics from soundtrack:
Here's to the ones who dream,
Foolish, as they may seem;
Here's to the hearts that ache;
Here's to the mess we make.
This line of lyrics was sung by Mia when she told the story of an aunt who dared to jump barefoot into the icy river during the audition.
I remember that she told us she jumped in the river once,
Barefoot.
She smiled, Leapt, without looking.
And She tumbled into the Seine!
The water was freezing she spent a month sneezing,
But said she would do it, again.
Jumping into the icy river is of course a metaphor. What this lyric really wants to say is that people who really dare to chase dreams are irrational to some extent, with a little bit of madness, and they seem to be very strange to others. Silly. But it is those crazy and heartache moments in life that make us feel the ups and downs of emotions and make us feel that we are alive at this moment.
A bit madness is the key, to give us new color to see.
The third moment is about the vividness and color when chasing dreams.
I think La La Land has a great ending.
Mia, who is already married, and her husband passed by the bar where she had proposed the name, sat down, and saw the former boyfriend play a song again. All the time has turned, all his decisions from the first day are no longer the same, no quarrels, no separation, he and her walk all the way down, holding hands, and growing old with him. Then the song was completed and returned to reality. Nothing changed. She looked at him, and he looked at him. End of the play.
Why not a happy ending? Because life is like this, only when there is imperfection, there are regrets, when there are regrets, there are obsessions, and only when there are obsessions can you understand those principles, and then you can know what the beauty in life is like.
Would your choice be different if time came again?
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