Babylon
'You held the spotlight. It's those of us in the dark, the ones who just watch, who survive.'
Cinema and time are the things that survive. That's what Chazelle believes and we should all follow him in that. We should join him in our own funeral procession where we acknowledge the fact that we are and never will be anything compared to film. Saying it out loud, it sounds insane, but to prove the immortality and omnipotency of cinema - we must exercise the reasons why it is immortal, and Babylon does just that. Film has never been more holy than here. A film is a million dreams - a dance with a burning cigarette, a spear in an extra, a crocodile chained in a dungeon, and most of all - an undying love for love. Chazelle loves everything in Babylon completely, that's why his orchestrated madness feels so much more cohesive than critics like to give him credit for. Cinema is Chazelle's interpretation of the Tower of Babel yet in this situation, in this secular reality, Chazelle - as God - does not make it fall and scatter mankind across the globe. On the contrary, he wants mortals to keep building, to keep progressing - even if he knows they'll never reach the heavens.