If you plan to see La La Land, stop reading. This will ruin it for you.
If you have already seen it — or plan not to — read on.
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La La Land is, in all respects, a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down. It’s so sweet, in fact, that one hardly notices the heavy dose of truth it makes you swallow.
That truth being that human beings will almost always choose themselves and their wishes, over other people or others’ dreams. Even over the tug of their own hearts.
That sounds sour indeed — cause to add more than a spoonful of sugar. Yet even as eternal as that truth may be, and however unromantic a nugget it is to dig out of the creamy meringue of an amateur musical that is La La Land, it also feels “new.”
New in the sense that these charming young people, who might well have had each other AND “it all”, ultimately opt for “it all” but, not, each other. That’s a choice, and an ending, which might have been unthinkable in an earlier era of musical comedies.
Yet in the second decade of this 21st Century, it seems all too true. Why?
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