I just watched La La Land, which is really a little surprise at the end of the year. The plot of the movie is not complicated, and the topics discussed are familiar. It is not refreshing from the ideological level, but it is very moving in terms of emotional processing.
From the perspective of love, it is actually a typical Hollywood boy-meets-girl story type. The heroine Mia (Emma Stone) is a prospective actress who is still going to audition and fails everywhere, and she also goes to work in a cafe during the day to make ends meet. The leading actor, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), is a piano accompanist who wholeheartedly wants to play jazz. Two people fall in love and encourage each other, and spend a short romantic time.
There are always twists in the story, young people have to grow up, daydreams have to wake up, life has to change, and the change here started when Sebastian signed a contract with a popular band as a keyboard player. This band is closer to pop music, touring everywhere, it is a stable job with good salary, but it has nothing to do with the music Sebastian aspires to, the career he wants to accomplish (opening a jazz bar, playing real jazz, conveying jazz), basically has nothing to do with it. Mia asked him why he made this choice, but Sebastian felt that he was trying to be a good man and a good partner to meet Mia's expectations, and Mia was dissatisfied with his success because his career improved, which led Mia to get along with him. When the sense of superiority is reduced, that's why they are dissatisfied. The two broke up that night, and the next day Mia's self-directed and self-acted play premiered (almost no one went), Sebastian also missed it because of work, and Mia was extremely disappointed in her career and relationship. That's when an audition opportunity comes up and Sebastian convinces Mia to go. After the audition, Sebastian already had a premonition of Mia's future success and impending separation. At the end of the film, five years later, Mia and Sebastian reunited with each other.
The film can also be regarded as a growth theme for young adults. YouTube film critic Chris Stuckmann said that many viewers feel that this movie is a love letter to Los Angeles, because La La Land itself is also another name for Los Angeles. But in his opinion, this movie is actually a love letter to passionate people, to those who hold on to their dreams with enthusiasm. ——This is why I said that the theme of this movie does not innovate. Persisting in dreams vs. facing reality is such an old-fashioned topic. It feels like it has been approached from 80,000 angles by various literary works. There are reasons and understandable choices for whichever one chooses, but it makes people willing to go Chased, and dazzled or heartbroken, is a deception scientifically called "possibility,"It's a hook marked "what if", it's you and me in the parallel world.
Everyone who has followed fanwen knows that one of the main motivations for fanfiction is, what if. When you meet in another place in time and space, the story will be opened in a completely different way. And the ten minutes at the end of this movie is a perfect "what if" proposition composition.
Five years later, Mia has her own family, she has achieved success in her career, and settled in LA. One evening, while taking a walk with her husband after dinner, they stumbled into a jazz bar, which happened to be opened by Sebastian. The logo was designed by Mia for him when they were in love. It's cliché, it's sensational, but it's really good to cry.
Since Sebastian came to the stage to play the piano, Mia saw another life trajectory in a trance, and Sebastian did the same. If, if I had kissed you, if I had hugged you, if I hadn't signed a band, if I had been at your premiere, if I had accompanied you to Paris, would we have been a couple, a parents came to this bar after dinner and a walk to see another young man dreaming of music playing the melodious piano, while we clasped our fingers together in the audience.
When I saw this paragraph, I really remembered a scene that a girl told me. At that time, she and the boy she liked were facing their respective graduations. She was going back to China, and the boy was going to Europe. The two of them went on a trip together to live in a small wooden house in the big forest, and spent a few days isolated from the world. They had made an agreement with each other, and after returning, they parted ways without regret. Unfortunately, within a few days after he came back, the boy fell ill and had a fever. He had promised not to see him again, but he acted like a baby and asked her to take care of him. The girl had no choice but to accompany him, cook porridge for him, and tell him to drink water. At the end of the day, they were very sad.
The girl told me, "Because I suddenly realized clearly what kind of future I can't have, what kind of possibility is between me and him." it's so specific to let you see and experience what kind of life you want to give up. It's a lot more heart-wrenching than the abstract "I can't be with him anymore."
The ending of La La Land is also such a specific heartache. If the previous separation was just a concept, but the reunion after five years of separation makes you realize, paradoxically, how specific and subtle the fact is that we are no longer together, separated, and that we have lost the life with you since then. It is no longer possible to become the father of your child, and we only have the fate to look at each other on and off the stage.
Yi Wei wrote a film review of "City of Glass", saying that "Life has a destiny that you must go through",It is said that this movie is actually about the love problem that everyone will encounter. Knowing that they will be separated sooner or later, why are they together? Knowing that there may be a future if you hold on a little longer, why can't you show a penny of willpower? ——So actually, La La Land tells a similar story. There are no misunderstandings, and there are no natural disasters or man-made disasters, but it is so difficult for people to stay and love each other, and even eating meals is a fate that must be cherished.
If I know that we only have this short period of fate, that we have walked into one person's world in such a comprehensive and detailed way, and then walked out of each other's life without a trace, if I can know that I am truly What was given up, what was missed—at least, we once danced together in the rosy sunset of Los Angeles, and were illuminated by the bright stars of this city.
Thank you for accompanying me in my dreams.
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