The look and feel is too beautiful, and the beauty of the artwork basically reaches the extreme of the audiovisual output of film language, audio and video. If you want to categorize it, this is the type that is not willing to blink and end when you watch it, sitting on a chair and hoping that it is as long as possible, and when the subtitles are released, they silently plan to watch it again.
The coordinates are the largest theater chain in Los Angeles. Billy's 120 frames were also played here before, and it belongs to one of the five advanced theaters in the United States. Today, from three o'clock to eleven o'clock, there is a Lala City every half an hour. The basic field is saturated. The dome hall I went to opened at 3:45, except for the corners. When I was waiting for the bus, I met a girl who drove over from Long Beach for three hours. She said that she had been looking forward to it after seeing the trailer. Ryan Gosling’s charm could not be rejected. To be honest, this is also the first time I have gotten Gosling’s face in a down-to-earth manner. The eyebrows and eyes are extravagant, unruly and arrogant, and the hormones in the shirt burst in minutes. It is really handsome and shiny in this movie. .
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LA LA LAND, Urban Dictionary gives two interpretations, one is "immersed in the'own world'", and the other refers to Hollywood’s exclusive atmosphere of breaking away from reality and unrealistically chasing dreams ; This name is perfect for the theme of the whole movie. It can be said to be wonderful: the male protagonist and the female protagonist break away from the past life and go to Hollywood to pursue their dreams. Sister Stone wants to be an actor, but she can only work as a temporary worker in a coffee shop. Repeatedly failing, Gosling is a pianist obsessed with jazz, but he was swept out even when he played cheer in a hotel. The two met by chance at a low point in their lives, but they had a common artistic dream. They were in harmony with each other. In his own La La Land.
In the opening twenty minutes, I realized with hindsight that, in addition to the very relevant interpretation of the title, LA LA LAND, the capitalized word LA, also quietly places the city where the story happened, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles. In this movie, the city exists as a very attractive independent character, even more important than the hero and the heroine. After all, the hero and heroine are just one of the millions of dream-seeking youths in this city. And Los Angeles and Hollywood are the existence that can never be replaced. Enter Los Angeles, City of... in the Google search box, and the auto-completed ones are "angels", "dream", "champions", and "praise": the city of angels, the dream City, the City of Glory, plus the theme song "City of Stars" in this film, sums up the most dazzling part of the city.
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Living in LA, the feeling of watching this movie will be different. With my simple understanding of the West Coast, even in California, the style of LA is very unique and very different from the surrounding cities. New urbanism opposes the highlighting of individual characteristics of the city, because it means that the development of urban planning is out of control. However, LA has gone to the dark on the "individual characteristics". Even a street corner has obvious LA style, and even the interiors in the movie Some of the unique characteristics of LA, when watching this movie, are the journey from the street corners that I pass every day, to the jazz bar I visited last month, to the Santa Monica pier, to the observatory in a half-hour drive, and even Warner Photography The shed is also a place to watch sitcom. Every scenery is within reach and kind, but the magic is that this director has the ability to convey the unpainted beauty of LA, the cracks of the asphalt road that has been in disrepair, and the worn shoulders. , Half-withered palm trees, narrow and dirty alleyways with strange storefronts, desert-style creamy creamy red creamy gray sprayed stiff houses along the street facade, and out of service angel cable cars. These make people know at a glance that they are indeed Los Angeles. The characteristic, the movie was shot intact for you, but the color tone is beautiful and lively and harmonious, without the messy texture that I produced by myself.
At the beginning of the movie, it was a joke full of LA style. On the wide four-lane highway, traffic jams from all over the world, ah no, five continents and eight oceans. All kinds of people in short-sleeved shorts and skirts are cheerful. Popped out of the car to sing and dance, sing "Another Day of Sun" (today is still a big sun), the first sentence of the climax is exited, and there is laughter in the theater, traffic jams, and horns. The whole clip can't be updated. There are only about 20 cloudy days in 365 days a year, including rain. If the slogan of this sentence is still understood by people all over the world without pressure, then the song ends, and duang has a big word WINTER that pops out on the screen. It's probably an internal joke to come and laugh and applaud the audience. In mid-November this year, the temperature was close to the annual high, and LA even turned on the high temperature alert. This is the winter of LA.
The second impressive point is that the hostess walks out of the party. The host helps the hostess to get the car keys. The hostess informs the host that his car is a Toyota Prius. It's all the key to the Prius. It is said that when the Prius first came out, because of its cheapness and fuel efficiency, it set off a buying frenzy among young Californians. It was a bit like the scene of domestic Chery QQ rampant seven or eight years ago. Every car has a Prius, and even more, this terrier also received laughter and applause from the audience.
In the next audition, although I didn't have any special feelings, it was mentioned in professional film reviews that it was full of sharp internal jokes. There was a group of beautiful girls laughing together behind me. I don't know if I saw myself chasing star dreams here. The shadow of (California actors really mean it’s a bit everywhere. Two days ago, I learned that my local California roommate was doing commercials when I was a child. Later, I stopped learning because of heavy learning tasks. I couldn’t see it at all)
. In fact, in addition to the impeccable quality, it must have a bit of personal feelings from film critics. Among them, how many of them have worked hard in the West Bank with their ideals, some have come back from feathers, some have reduced their arrogance and started ordinary work, and some have achieved success. Over 10,000 people, the feelings of these people are vented to the fullest through this film. This is a movie that belongs to the protagonists Mia and Sebastian, it is also a movie that belongs to a whole generation of people who have wandered in Hollywood, and it belongs to all those who have worked hard for the future. Everyone is on this journey of dreams. In, I saw myself.
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This director is a genius, this director is a genius,
this director is a genius,
this director is a genius,
this director is a genius,
this director is a genius,
this director is a genius
, this sentence has always been in my mind during the movie watching, and it was sent out to encourage
Hollywood to be my baby's assembly line "Duck Lord" "Later, love sketches that were once unique and focused on young audiences are basically dead (of course, Lala’s main attribute is still musicals), so now it’s really true that you can finally see heavy and high-quality romantic films in theaters. It’s not easy. It can be said that this film is the most outstanding romantic film and original musical in the past decade. Of course, as a film with a frightening reputation, it is not just about love. In addition to love, dreams, opportunities, talents, and reality In the most dreamy scenes, they are discussing the most real problems. Although it sounds boring, but believe me, this director is really a genius. The cookie cutter room straddles the distance of Oceania. (The most exciting climax of the whole show is in the spoiler. I will elaborate on the spoiler later, but I still recommend that I go to the theater to watch it. It is worth waiting)
As a song and dance film, the director has played to the extreme in lens scheduling and character scheduling. The biggest shock to me from this film is the "this special talent is called a movie" mentioned at the beginning. The movie is the art of audiovisual language, and now the movie Producers are more and more inclined to use narration, talk, discussion, etc. to explain information, but they are too lazy to think about how to use lens language to explain the story. However, this film is extremely restrained, deliberately reducing the proportion of narrative stories with words, and instead using pictures to narrate as much as possible, it does have the style of the golden age. What was more impressive was that there was a scene where the heroine wore an ugly mountaineering suit to audition, and was rejected without saying a few words after entering the scene. She rushed to the corridor without a word and angrily, while walking. While unzipping the mountaineering suit, the coffee stains on the shirts worn during work are clearly visible. At the same time, there are dozens of girls wearing shirts of various colors sitting in the corridor. A shot takes only two seconds. "Coffee shop fucking", "Time is tight", "Can't afford new clothes", "A shirt must be worn for auditioning", "Auditioning competition is fierce". The effect of the protagonist, using stage plays and even silhouettes to explain the plot, lighting/extinguishing the sky/street lights, does not have a sense of contradiction, using the trick of disappearing round holes many times during the transition, the feeling of the golden age comes out at once; (this sentence (Slightly spoiler) And when the male protagonist embarked on the road of the band keyboard, his keyboard was replaced with a variety of keys, red and black, pure silver, but there is no black and white of a traditional piano, "losing the heart" is not to say Middle; The heroine returned to her hometown, where she displayed the small performance awards she had won since childhood and many posters made by her childhood. It took less than four or five seconds. The heroine went from being confident to having a bruised nose in Hollywood. The journey of losing confidence is clearly outlined (spoiler end); these pictures and movies do not have any matching words to explain, and they are truly powerful enough that the pictures are telling stories. And this is only the most basic, slow enough that I can see, more often, the camera is dizzying, each one is amazing, such as the romantic scene of flying into the sky in the trailer, with different front and back The purpose is used twice; if the ordinary director uses one language, the director of the film is a god-man who speaks four or five languages seamlessly at any time. He light-shadows music, light-shadows emotions, with skillful methods and his own style. It is hard to believe that he is only 31 years old.
Judging from the director’s past resume, he loves music, loves jazz, and loves old movies. Watching his movies, there is a strong feeling in front of these images. These pictures are the feeling of transfiguration of musical notes. Correct, soothing benefits, just like jazz, although the rhythm of the sheet music is changeable (the jazz score is written here with the rhythm of 233), the key change is also common, but the final effect is always harmonious. Too little.
In the burst drum, although the color is relatively single, the rich layering and texture can already see the director's aesthetic skills. This time the color spectrum of the picture is much wider, but the effect is extremely harmonious, with a lot of layering and texture. On the contrary, The special effect caused by the color collision has a special sense of oil painting back to the 80s but full of modernity. The last movie made me feel so beautiful. Each frame can be used as a painting alone, or in IMAX. When watching the youth pie. Oh and Xiao Li's Wilderness Hunter. It is mentioned in the title that this movie is "a dream", that is, watching the color collision is strong and gorgeous, it is easy to change between multiple modes, and it is full of immersion, really like a dream.
From the perspective of writing, this is not one of my favorite love stories at the moment. I have seen La Lalan, and I only feel greasy when I look at the love stories I have liked in the past. The love here is brisk, natural, comfortable and meticulous. There is no suspicion of being feminine and pretentious, and it allows the two to achieve and inspire each other. The politically correct statement is that this love is the healthiest relationship I have seen on the screen. It's hard to believe that such words are written by a man.
By the way, director Damien Chazelle has directed three long and one short four films. Except for the first NBCS music biopic, the remaining two feature films are called Burst Drummer and LALALAND. Rotten Tomatoes and MTC are respectively 94% 88. 96% 89. Oh, he wrote the scripts for these two films. The former won three Oscars, while the latter is estimated to be a lot more. Oh, yes, that NBCS film, Rotten Tomatoes 90% MTC84. Everyone feels casually, what is the fear of being crushed.
In addition, the film is a great test for the actors. There are many long shots and close-ups in the psychological drama. The two performed very well. Except for one of the embarrassing auditions of the heroine in the play, there are no crying scenes in the whole film (I remember not, the second look See if it will slap in the face), there is no big eruption of landslides, it is very peaceful and realistic, but it can't be explored in depth. Both Sister Stone and Gosling did well, and the chemical reaction exploded. The director said that dream cast is not unreasonable.
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thought before it was a movie after Hong eighty-one difficult to get married in an unusual love story, after reading that , Mom Dan decided to release the movie on Valentine's Day in the Mainland, which is really full of malice.
Because the two are not together. And it's still my baby who can play soy sauce style without being together, leaving no room for redemption.
However, it cannot be said that this is a tragedy. In fact, after going round and round, the male and female protagonists have persisted in their original intentions and walked in the direction they most want to go in their lives. With a future that cannot be imagined when they are down, the female protagonist has become the front line. Movie stars, male protagonists have their own jazz bar as they wish, and life is exactly the same as they wanted five years ago. How many people have this luxury.
This is an ordinary love. There are some cute little contradictions, and there are also cute little shining points. He honked the horn at the heroine impatiently on the high speed, rudely knocked it away, and met the heroine who came to praise his piano music again. He was at the party. Shang and the heroine are tit-for-tat to each other's painful feet, but the chances of many encounters and similar circumstances and pursuits have brought them together. They have some sweet and common things. And above love, they shaped each other's lives, intentionally or unintentionally, they all affected each other's direction on a certain path. The male protagonist discovered the female protagonist’s talent and encouraged her to write a one-act play that made the casting director blue eyes. He also took the female protagonist to participate in the most important audition in her life, and finally jumped to the branch; and the female protagonist chose to join the legend. Because of the brother band, the male protagonist earned the start-up capital to open the bar, and the female protagonist also led the male to the original goal of life without being trapped by the money.
Until the male lead's career is too busy, he missed the debut of the female lead's one-act drama, which almost no one cared about. Inwardly, the two of them couldn't bear the gap between one party's downfall and the other's career take-off, resulting in irreparable conflict, and finally ironically opened up the female lead's acting. When the career broke through, they were separated peacefully because of a different place. Until five years later, by chance, the two met again.
Countless movies and TV dramas talk about regrets, differences, other possibilities, talk about asking for nothing, talking about "if it was then", but I have never seen such a thorough and one-shot deal, not half of them. The words are narrated in pure camera language. Six years ago, the male protagonist finished playing a song in the restaurant, got up, went straight to the female protagonist and kissed affectionately, and the drums were played. The story started here differently. The director completely let go of the whole film. Rushing to the climax: unrestrained and changeable shots, kaleidoscope-like and diverse transitions, jumping various music variations, scenes of stage plays and scenes of real shooting alternately; family video, black and white mime, silhouettes, just a few minutes Inside, the director used the collage to the extreme, but it was not greasy: the heroine's one-act play was successful, and the heroine cheered in the audience, and then kisses, marriage, family, children, common and beautiful , Singing and laughing on the screen, under the screen I have long been crying; in these seven and a half minutes, I have been clear at the same time every second. All of this is an illusion and a glimmer of hope waiting for the director to reverse the plot again. The huge emotional see-saw In the middle, the plot once again overlaps with reality. The difference is that the same plot accompanies the heroine. However, the music calms down, the camera turns, and the song ends. On the stage is the lonely figure of the hero. What happened just now is nothing. It's the feelings of the male lead and the female lead blending into this song that belongs to them together. The male lead stood up to thank, and the female lead stood up and left. His eyes met and separated. The screen was black, and the film ended. The suffocating regrets between the light and shadow are displayed vividly, without a word, but the shock is ten times as much as the treatment of the same scene in the film and television drama, sorrow but not hurt, take seven inches straight, not sprinkle dog blood, not hysterical, Leave only the calmest and most beautiful side, even regrets are extremely beautiful. Here is another question about LA LA LAND. Some dreams are beautiful, but there will always be a day of shattering. The male and female owners have achieved the success of LA LA LAND in the entertainment industry, but they can only lose what helped them move forward. The two are emotionally connected. LA LA LAND, the last of the movie is a dream, and the broken dream.
Although the first half of the story is wonderful, I have been worried that this is a vulgar story. The last ten minutes were completely shocked. It completely broke the pattern of vulgar romantic movies. It is really wonderful and it is indeed worthy of a crowd of film critics. High score.
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last to One point, nine points (deducted to me for a short awkward plot) plus one point for the selfishness of I love LA. This movie has too much stamina and the plot is simple, but after watching it, I can’t stop thinking. It’s not the so-called Brain-burning thinking, but thinking about my future plans, my dreams and pursuits when I came to LA, so I got a perfect score.
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