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2. There's No Happily Ever After - La La Land
La La Land may appear on the surface as your typical love story to many but in reality, it's far more complicated and depressing than that.
Director Damien Chazelle's musical masterpiece hit the big screen back in 2016 and although approaching a decade on, it's a film still firmly on everyone's minds and mouths.
La La Land is without a doubt best described as unique, in the sense that not only does it have the feel of a film that should be watched at least once in a person's lifetime but it also boasts tremendous and equally rewarding re-watch value other flicks don't have the pleasure of possessing.
Acting under Chazelle's masterful direction, Emma Stone's Mia and Ryan Gosling's Sebastian attempt to explore and harness the complications of falling in love whilst trying to make it in their respective problematic professions.
What follows is a 'Will they, Won't they?' as Mia's ambitious acting aspirations and Sebastian's struggling jazz career clash in a complex, collision course of choosing love or their livelihoods.
But the trick is that this isn't your typical love story. Chazelle expertly subverts the historic cinematic trope that love results in a happy ending. La La Land deploys and exhibits a fairy-tale feel but this is almost certainly not the case and the film's finale makes that abundantly clear.
After a rollercoaster ride of emotion and passion, we as the audience and viewer have come to expect that Mia and Sebastian would live happily ever after. When, in reality, they find happiness in their personal and professional lives away from each other.
Genius.