I don't think I have ever been in love with a movie, like I'm in love with La La Land. From the first few seconds, till the very end. This movie had me and didn't let go. My english vocabulary is not good enough to express my love, heck, my dutch vocabulary is not good enough to express it. This movie is everything.
It is beautiful, happy, magical, romantic and I could go on for a little while longer but I won't. I wasn't expecting it to be this musical-y, but I mean, I love musicals so I'm not complaining. I think this is a great "musical" because there isn't non stop singing, so people who don't like musicals might like this one because it's more "subtle". I can only imagine how much practice went into all those dance routines and don't get me started on the impressive piano skills Ryan Gosling showed us.
Something that really impressed me as well was the way they filmed everything. It's a very creative and different way, which I really enjoyed and think makes this movie a great inspiration for those who love film and camerawork themselves. The build up and flashbacks and stuff were really cool as well. Yea I really enjoyed that. Also, the storyline, which does so much for a movie, was so great.
This is normally the part were I talk about the actors, but seeing that there were mainly only two actors and they were both amazing (I do think tho, that Ryan Gosling his character wasn't a very challenging one for him because we have seen him in roles like these before. Mixing it up with all the dancing, singing en piano playing though, you got something quite different and I loved it), I'm going to skip this part and say that you should watch this movie, do nothing more, just watch it, enjoyed it and love it.
10/10 a damn good film
Most other people will probably give it a 5/10 and that’s fine, this movie isn’t going to work for the majority of viewers….
It’s a love story told in a different way to how I’ve ever seen before and if you look into it very deeply you will see it loosely follows the normal format, man and woman meet, slowly fall in love, split up and then at the last minute come back together again.
The thing is this movie is very subtle about it, it’s more of a story about how we all have messed up and broken up with people that seemed to be just right, the mistakes we have made and how it scares us all.
There are two very sad moments were you will start to well-up, but it doesn’t linger on them for long and pulls you back to the story.
No over acting, just simple depictions.
Good storytelling, but simply done.
Subtle music, just there in the background.
Well timed, not drawn out or hastily done.
So yes 10/10 is maybe over the top, but I’m ready to watch this again very soon and would happily rewatch it many times in the future…..
Plus, I wouldn’t mind there being a follow up to it sometime, think there’s plenty to still be explored here…
