On February 18, 2017, after watching "La La Land" in the cinema, I felt so mediocre and gave me two stars. I even said this:
The pacing of the whole movie is so fucking weird. If you can get 14 nominations in this way (and it's not a black gay story), you should be able to get seven or eight nominations when you are young. You know, it's all about sincere and deep love stories and dream-chasing youths who struggle with passion. btw. It's better to talk about the allocation of resources in the market than to talk about the revival of jazz.
The male protagonist's sentence "You were with me at the beginning was because my down-and-out gave you a sense of superiority" is not without evidence. The heroine is a person who can eat through a man, but still wants to pursue his dream. The hero is a character who struggles to revive the dream of classical jazz but finally compromises for a living. Looking at it this way, the heroine actually has the capital to pursue poetry and the distance without considering the stubbornness in front of her. However, the male protagonist was originally sticking to the position of poetry and distant places, but for the sake of the female protagonist and his mother's phone call "he doesn't have a stable salary" (with the female protagonist's urine, this phone call may also be fake...) And he made a compromise to his own ideals to manage the current situation.
However, when the male protagonist started to become famous and the female protagonist's acting career was in turmoil, the female protagonist began to feel unhappy again. It is difficult to explain whether the heroine needs a sense of superiority, or is she really afraid of a long-distance relationship. From the end of the film, the heroine is undoubtedly a vain person, and the hero is probably just a step. But she's still crying in someone else's bar? ? ?
I'm not denying that love and dreams can't have both. Because it is the movie that is denying this. Since it has been denied, why create an illusory flashback scene at the end, and reveal a possibility to the audience at the end to reveal the disgusting obscenity of the heroine?
The road is chosen by oneself, love to walk or not.
Before the hero and heroine inexplicably establish their relationship and suddenly download the scene of singing and dancing in the beautiful evening of LA, there is a scene where they are looking for where to park the car. The male protagonist said, put the car key close to the chin and launch it. Although it is more likely to get brain cancer, it shortens the time to find a car, so basically make up for the time when brain cancer took your life.
I think the rhythm of this episode is as if the screenwriter took a car key and put it under his chin and fired it at the audience. The more you watch such movies, the more likely you are to get brain cancer.
Having said that. There's still something good about this movie. For example, the best acting is John Legend. Start a Fire may be the best part of the whole movie. City of Stars is also pretty good. So it's understandable that the Oscars go to best original song, but if it's best picture and best director, I'd want to hit someone. Because this movie, no matter from which angle you look at it, is a song and dance version of a small era that is shrouded in aura.
On February 8, 2018, I rewatched "La La Land" at home and found that I liked it unexpectedly, and gave it five stars.
I hated this movie so much at one point that I even wrote these vicious reviews. But when I rewatched it yesterday while lying in bed, I was amazed by it. Part of this amazement comes from the huge contrast between the two viewings, and the other part comes from really discovering the film's strengths and weaknesses, but still more willing to applaud those highlights.
If I had to give me a reasonable explanation for what looks like a split-personality aesthetic, I might say this: a year ago my evaluation system was more rational, a year later my evaluation system would be due to change in response to emotions. The so-called emotional feelings come from the appearance of the actors (please call me by your name), the rendering of colors (Wong Kar-wai), the mobilization of music (La La Land), and of course, the experiences recalled in the film.
In the second half of watching the movie, I tried to find the thorns in the movie, but I found that the thorns were there, and there was nothing to pick on. For example, we don’t know why the heroine ran back to her parents’ house in a fit of rage, and the hero suddenly stopped working, or why the rich boyfriend of the heroine never appeared, or why the failures and successes experienced by the hero and heroine were only It takes a blink of an eye.
But I don't seem to care much about these things. I seemed to let my body drift into a beautiful, pure white and innocent dream. If I was unwilling to enter this world a year ago, or if I didn't have the key, I seem willing to visit it a year later. I won't stay long, but I will be reluctant to leave.
The so-called "male protagonist compromised his ideals because of the phrase 'he doesn't have a stable salary' on the phone between the female protagonist and his mother (with the female protagonist's urination, this phone call may be fake...) It is difficult to explain whether the heroine needs a sense of superiority, or is she really afraid of a long-distance relationship. From the end of the film, the heroine is undoubtedly a vain person , the male protagonist is probably just a step." In fact, they are all extremely subjective judgments and speculations. I think this is an irrational assumption made by the so-called rational evaluation system trying to find some arguments that can support its own point of view. Or even call it a conspiracy theory. If these hypotheses are true, they are only a part of the real weakness of human nature.
And some other comments seem to be nothing more than pure poisonous tongues.
In 2018, I feel that the rhythm is not strange at all, but it is very comfortable and natural. I feel that the transformation of the two narrative perspectives in the first paragraph finally overlaps, which actually gives people a kind of fate and the joy of chance encounter. I feel that the contrast between the liveliness and the coldness of the two stages is too exaggerated, and the quarrel at the dining table is too forceful, but they are all put away in time, and continue to be unfolded in a plain and humorous tone. I feel that the female protagonist is in front of the curtain of the movie hall but is not scolded, the astronomy museum is still empty at midnight, and the male protagonist can find the female protagonist's home by saying "library". These illogical facts, Existing in a beautiful dream seems trivial and understandable.
Besides, the soundtrack is so beautiful and the male lead is so handsome, it really caused my emotions to fluctuate many times. I said, even though we all know clearly that love and dreams are not so simple at all, in this paradise named Lala, I suddenly want to believe in beauty again.
I think the so-called people and movies depend on fate. Like and dislike, are so accidental. Although this brings a certain degree of helpless panic, it is beautiful because of the surging possibilities that it brings at the same time.
PS some favorite lyrics
And even when the answer's no
Or when my money's running low
The dusty mic and neon glow are all I need
And someday as I sing my song
A small-town kid will come along
That'll be the thing to push him on and go go
Climb these hills I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
City of stars
Are you shining just for me
City of stars
There's so much that I can't see
who knows
I felt it from the first embrace I share with you
A rush
A glance
A touch
A dance
A look in somebody's eyes
To light up the skies
To open the world and send it reeling
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