Review of La La Land (2016) by Brunovn00 — 31 Mar 2019

From the talented director of Whiplash, comes another musical masterpiece: La La Land. This movie is about the romance of aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), they both have great chemistry and they're one of the best movie couples in recent cinema, director Damien Chazelle had the talent to write and develop their relationship really well. As this is a musical, it obviously has many musical numbers throughout the movie and they're all fantastic and serve a purpose to the plot.

The Good:

-The performances are amazing.

-The script, dialogue and character development are great. The chemistry between the main characters is just wonderful.

-The score and music is memorable and beautiful.

-The ending scene is one of the best ending scenes I've seen in a long time and the message it tries to give is sad but true: That sometimes couples need to separate and both go in different ways to accomplish their dreams. It's a lighthearted, depressing yet satisfying ending and it's more tearjerking with the beautiful music, the last shot of the movie is Mia and Seb smiling to each other is an amazing ending, pretty refreshing to see a couple actually not ending together, it makes the ending unpredictable.

-Obviously the rest of the movie is as amazing as that last scene. The musical numbers are memorable, catchy and well choreographed.

The Bad:

-I think the only "bad" or not so good thing is Ryan Gosling's acting as Sebastian. He did a good job but he didn't really shine as much as other actors, specially his in-movie couple Mia (Emma Stone).

La La Land is a masterpiece of a movie, I could watch it over and over and nothing of it will ever get old at least for me.