Los Angeles has the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. When driving down the highway, it feels as if you can find eternity across the skyline. So later I felt that if one day I fell in love in this city, the most romantic thing would be to drive aimlessly with two people, skimming over palm trees, snowy mountains and deserts, and find a motel when I finally enter the night. , The neon lights with cheap fluorescent lights should be hung in front of the store.
The beauty of Los Angeles in the movie really breaks my heart. She is the most vivid character in the whole movie. Seb and Mia watched the lanterns on the hills, the rosy sunset on the sky lining the gleaming light of the whole city, the friend on my left said, this is fake, isn't it? Of course it’s not fake. Every hill in Los Angeles that is slightly higher, looks so gentle and glowing night in the distance. Once the homework assigned to us by the English teacher was empty meditation. I sat by the small window of the dormitory and watched the traffic on the shortest section of road as far as I could see for half an hour. The light that flows back and forth, they are all going home.
The glimpses of Los Angeles are so superficial, but because it is so superficial it is a bit too obvious, and a bit distressing. The open avenues and mansions in the wealthy area (must be equipped with a sparkling swimming pool that can be used for large parties). All the noise and restlessness in the sun are nothing new, but everyone feels that they can save the world. What's next. New York is different. New York is too cold. Everyone is cynical. They say they want to make a name for themselves. In fact, since the first winter when they moved here, they have become complete nihilists. Joan Didion said that New York is a city only for young people. I think this judgment is also very suitable for Los Angeles. All her false promises only apply to young people under the age of 28. If nothing happens at this age, it probably needs to be renewed. I think about my career plan, or I will spend my whole life in the dreams I had in my teens. Don't be obsessed with the amber wine at the party, clichés and flattery, dreams are mostly soap bubbles that burst with a single poke. My high school has accepted many unknown middle-aged directors, poets and playwrights. Everyone’s ability to analyze the meaninglessness of petty-bourgeois life is no worse than the new darling of the critics who are enthusiastic every year-my English The script written by the teacher is as beautiful as the morning fog on the beach. But what's the use? The creative industry is too cruel. Sometimes success depends only on luck, but people have to live a life, get a family, have a life, and have something of their own by following the crowd.
So it's time to talk about why I don't like this movie. All its shortcomings are also obvious. The exaggerated dance steps make the clumsiness of the two protagonists too obvious, and the story promotion is too weak to rely on more pale lines. But all this is nothing in the face of its empty romanticization of love and struggle. To be honest, I don’t see any emotional basis between the hero and the heroine. In that trivial and irritating candlelight dinner quarrel, Seb asked a very meaningful question: You are with me because I am so poor. , Can you get a little sense of superiority from it? Looking at it calmly, the friendship and love of Zhiyu Weishi is largely for the purpose of having a companion when you want to blame the heavens and the others. Seb and Mia are not suitable for each other. Their way of expressing their love is to do their best to comfort each other when they are frustrated, because they may have found a place for hope in each other, but when such hope comes true, they can't get along. For them, love is an ideal left in a poor life. After it becomes a reality, it will not be so beautiful. So their fantasies about each other's tenderness at the end are themselves paradoxes. The reason why they are separated is because they can't adapt and adapt in reality. How can they really live the life of getting along with each other day and night?
I don't like it too. It turned Los Angeles into a large travel advertisement seen in rose-colored glasses. She was originally a city with fireworks on earth. Los Angeles has wildfires, strong winds, and droughts that have not been resolved for several years, but from the mansion of beverly hills to the karaoke lounge in the Chinese district, people here are always trying to taste and grasp in such roughness. All the joy to come. There is an endless desert in Los Angeles. There is no grass except the strongest bushes, but there is also a beach at the end of the wasteland, and there is an endless sea through it. The blue ocean embraces the sky, we embrace the fleeting joy, even if everything changes in the next second, we still have to dance with our faces uplifted.
"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life Los Angeles in, Impermanence Accentuate the ITS, the ITS unreliability. Wind Shows at the US How to use Close WE are at the Edge. "
-Joan Didion," Los Angeles Notebook "
in the sun, you have to laugh, laugh all until something suddenly broken heart At that time, until all the lies here can no longer make you pretend to believe.
There are so many possibilities to be two dreamy young people in Los Angeles. La La Land chose the most monotonous one. The somewhat silly girl grew into a woman with an accent. The innocent and reckless young man was stupefied by the sudden success and was unable to fully recover in the end. In fact, we may always love ourselves more than we love anyone, but we don't want to admit it. If you face this directly, what an interesting story will be.
City of stars, are you shining just for me? City of stars, there's so much that I can't see. The first time Seb sang this song on the trestle bridge at sunset by the sea, I really shed tears. Every foreigner who has lived there will have that kind of sadness. The City of Angels has experienced many earthquakes and fires, but still embraces everything silently with the mountains, she never shines specifically for anyone.
In fact, as long as we are worthy of ourselves, we don't need to deliberately pursue success.
I always think of a passage in 1 Corinthians recently.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, love is not boastful, not arrogant. Don't do shy things. Do not ask for your own benefit. Not easy to get angry. Do not count the evil of people. Don't like injustice. Only like the truth. Tolerate everything. Believe everything. Hope for everything. Be patient with everything.
Love never stops.
How easy it is to say I love you, but how many people can say that they really loved you. To love, to bear and accept the weaknesses of oneself and others, one should not always live in a grand self-movement.
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