La La Land

Is it better than whiplash? Two years ago would be no, but now I really couldn’t tell you. finished in film analysis today, and took notes on colors. Loved analyzing how the masterful Chazelle uses colors and how it adds to the story. He utilizes them in the way that since there is no narration of the character's inner feelings, color is how we know how they feel. I noticed something very special during this watch. Maybe this is because we split it over 3 days, but when I am watching the first third of La La Land, everything to their first kiss, I am not thinking at all about how it ends, only about what there is to come. this goes for the second third as well, the glory days of the relationship. It is at the end of the third act where it shows everything that has happened before this and I genuinely get reminded of all the things that happened at the beginning. Each part feels like a whole separate film. I really don't know how to explain it any further but yeah, I thought that aspect of the film made it brilliant. And no I don't think it was because of the split days because I feel this every time I watch the film I just haven't acknowledged it to myself until now. Fantastic, but pissed about why Emma and Ryan aren't cast in movies together anymore.