Do you think la la land is a classic of love?

"La La Land" is like a colorful and gorgeous shell, which started the first shot of Venice Film Festival and is almost certainly the best opening film of the film festival in the past two years. As for me, I came out of Darsena Hall with tears in my eyes on 10 in the morning, walked around the rather humble official souvenir shop, and then queued up for the second screening on 1 15.

Looking at more than a dozen traditional film types, musical is probably the most unpopular one among audiences and film critics. I wonder how many people roll their eyes when they see the characters in the movie suddenly singing and dancing. Indeed, if it is not handled well, it is easy to cause the separation of perception and even embarrassment by abruptly inserting song and dance scenes into the plot. So after the golden age of musical films, this genre has been declining. In 2002, Chicago won the Oscar for Best Film, which is almost the swan song of this genre. In recent 10 years, musical films have gradually disappeared, which is nothing more than Les Miserables, with mixed comments. Then, it is the "magic wheat" selling men's colors.

Damian Chazel brought "la la land", a young man who shocked the world with "explosive drummer" two years ago. In his third film, he used more famous business cards (Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) and jumped several levels in the production scale. Breaking through the new show wall, even if the musical form is gradually abandoned in the second half of the film, it can be said that it should be the best musical film in the past decade.

The genre of music interspersed in la la land is also the dream pursued by the protagonist Sebastian (played by Ryan Gosling)-Jazz, like the genre of musical films, is dying out. Sebu is an out-and-out idealist. His biggest dream is to open his own jazz club and save the dying jazz in one fell swoop. In fact, he is just a musician who plays the piano in a fancy restaurant and earns tips by playing festival music.

Mia (Emma Stone), the heroine of the film, is an actress who runs into a wall everywhere. She worked as a waitress in a coffee shop during the day and auditioned for countless roles in her spare time, but there was no news without exception. In fact, she doesn't have any dreams. There are many posters of Hollywood Golden Age movies hanging in her bedroom, but she hasn't even seen Rebellion for No Reason. Rent a house with three other girls and dawdle on boring dates and parties.

Because of a piece of music, the two finally met formally. Mia found an ideal look in Seb, and Seb found a reason to struggle in Mia. Like other well-known love movies, they fell in love despite the rough road.

La la land is a good movie. Chazelle abandoned his highly acclaimed fragmented editing in "Burst Drummer", simplified the complex, avoided all unnecessary editing points, and only used a smooth and beautiful mirror to express it. The opening long-range shot is particularly obvious. The 5-minute song and dance long shot directly kills the scene. The flowing lens has cooperated with several role changes, and the integration of bright colors and street culture has added a lot of color. Although in retrospect, this passage has little to do with the theme of the film, but the extremely difficult shooting and excellent impression made the film win applause from the live media before shooting.

La la land is a good enough movie. Just listening to the soundtrack in the movie made me cry for the first time in my life. There is no need to talk about jazz. A playful tribute to Miles Davis and Charlie Parker is sure to make many jazz fans smile. John stephens's friendly performance adds jazz fusion and EDM's modern style to the film. In the love drama between the hero and heroine, the melodious pop music makes the film feel by going up one flight of stairs. It can be said that the film satisfies almost all levels of fans, and the word "Philharmonic" is worthy of the name.

In la la land, Chazelle once again showed her strong control over the end of the film. A dream scene deconstructed for the whole film, interspersed with various shooting forms in the film history, impacted from three aspects: picture, sound and emotion, which made me burst into tears twice for this scene.

In director Chazeller's debut novel Guy and Adeline on a Park Bench, the names of the hero and heroine are Guy and Madeleine, which are the names of the hero and heroine in jacques demy's classic musical Umbrella in Cherbourg. In la la land, the director also paid tribute to Cherbourg's umbrella and that golden age. Such tributes include, but are not limited to, Rebellion for No Reason, Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, Black Cat, Scarf Masked Thief and so on. The two protagonists even went to the Griffith Observatory, a famous location in Rebellion for No Reason, and staged a weightless cosmic dance in the starry sky.

The film is divided into five chapters, winter, spring, summer, autumn and winter, just like the emotional experiences of the two protagonists. According to director Chazel, la la land is a story about an artist struggling between dream and reality. Starting from the third chapter, the film also focuses on the process of pursuing their dreams. Seb, forced by life and lured by money, embarked on the road of business, but Mia, who stuck to her, failed again because of lack of talent.

This may be what the director has been trying to tell in "la la land" and even "The Burst Drummer": paranoid idealists usually have two endings, one is to turn back immediately after hitting the south wall, the other is to smash the south wall side by side, and ultimately the abyss or glory depends on personal talent.

Even if we put aside all these expressions and look at la la land from the most superficial level, it is an almost perfect film. Gorgeous colors and moving music, you may not be deeply impressed by the feelings of the two people in the film, but you will definitely remember the figure of Sebo and Mia dancing under the purple sky in Griffith Park, and you will never forget the moving appearance of the two people mumbling to sing Star City.

It is difficult for you to find an adjective to define la la land, because it is so rich. It is about love and ideals; It tells the story of success and inevitable failure. It was Emma Stone's singing and Ryan Gosling's humming, and the two of them danced under the purple night sky in Griffith Park. It can be an idealist's desperate attempt, or it can be a sinking, and after the failure, cheer up and try again. It is a perfect tribute to the golden age of musical films, and it is also a film that returns to the truth.

There is no flattery that can accurately describe la la land's exquisiteness and beauty, only looking at it again and again and applauding with tears.