La La Land: It is Worth to be a Dreamer

The long long time waited movie had finally been watched. I’d already memorized all of the songs, already seen trailers and some clips of it, read its synopsis, and got jealous to people who had seen it before. Till it came to my time. La La Land.

Only by watching Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in one movie, made me dancing already. Added by jazz, great one shoot style cinematography, colorful classical 70s tone, Damien Chazelle, John Legend, and a box of wafer crispy caramel chocolate snack on my lap, I was waltzing out of stratosphere. It was just beyond all of satisfactions compressed in one treasure chest. I am not saying about perfection, but it was a really pleasure that worth to be waited. Just like Samuel Beckett waited for Godot, and this time The Godot is coming.

La La Land maybe not the best movie ever made, not the best drama romance or comedy, do not have the strongest directing and acting as a musical movie, so it doesn’t have the grand and resplendent scenery. To be compared with other great movie, partially, La La Land is able to be slammed easily. I just see it as Indonesia, if each element in Indonesia have to stand by itself, it will be stand still in good way, but won’t be long lasting. But if all the elements are mixed, fused, and cooked by the right hand it turns out to be grandeur. That is La La Land.

The title speaks the story. It is about Hollywood. And we knew that la la land also means mental state of someone who is not aware of what is really happening, the Don Quixote, fantasist, even delusive people. But how boring the life will be without them. So is art created by those kind of people. Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is failed jazz musician and Mia (Emma Stone) is a wannabe movie actress who is just failed equally. They meet, and we instantly know what will be happened. They story of two unlucky people in striving toward their dreams, their feeling. And then the change, so is other failures, change and again failures, and finally the chance that is do not stick to their dreams. Actually, after an hour, I was merely bored of its story, but I still charmed by the acting and the musical part. But minutes of its ending just stoke me once more time. Brought me tears and joy with one accord. The story is developed from teen romance to adult. And at the end when the two stars mutually nod, I am smiling the happiest smile.

Beside the acting and the story, the most mesmerizing thing about La La Land is the music. Jazz is never die. It was accompanied by the great choreography by Mandy Moore. O! I praise her highly. She was already my favorite choreographer since the first time I saw So You Think You Can Dance. And thrilling one shoot style cinematography, as I’d seen in Before Sunset is a key to lock my impression to Damien Chazelle. He is more than good. He is serious significant great director. I don’t know who will be my favorite in directing musical nowadays among him, John Carney, Rob Marshall, Baz Luhrmann, and Tom Hopper. They have different approaches that are fairly amazing. Of course it’d been supported by costume and make up division that was felt so young and fresh. If I have a thing to be considered could be improved to make it better is the editing, since the songs sometimes just like stand for itself, instead of blending with the whole story. But it was forgivable, at all.


So what is the last notion about this movie beside it was great for me? Keep dreaming! Hold very dear your love tenderly at any rate! And live your life, coz life worth to live is life that you really live without any regression.