![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll defend the ending because I actually think it’s brilliant, well beyond its inspired construct and all the way through to its thematic and philosophical implications. It’s what elevates the piece from artfully-rendered nostalgia fluff to something truly substantial. Quick, two episodes of Gilmore Girls, stat. I think if you’re going to make a sweeping, singy, dancy musical, it needs to be the kind of movie you want to watch over and over. Okay, I keep thinking about La La Land.She followed that up a few days later with: It seemed fatalistic in the worst way!! The romantic in me wants it to have gone the other way. Why couldn’t they have ended up together? I was so sad.In other words (spoiler alert), they don’t end up together.Ī good friend of mine (and hopeless romantic God bless her, I can sympathize) e-mailed me with this lament right after seeing it: “ La La Land is also told on a modest scale with a melancholy heart that feels much more off-Broadway than on….Like It’s A Wonderful Life, it asks us to consider which dreams are the most important, but does so in its own bittersweet way.” I made a nod to this, cryptically, with two statements from my review, once near the beginning and then again at the very end: ( SPOILERS to the ending of La La Land are discussed below. To read my full non-spoiler review, click here.)ĭespite being the choice du jour for film critics groups and musical-loving audiences, La La Land has an ending with the potential to be polarizing.
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