Here to the fools who(do not) dream

Do you really understand what La La Land is trying to say?

No, I think half of the people do not. And that's why we are divided as hell: romantics and realists, they are the extreme opposites in the spectrum of humankind.

Which is why this particular movie can not win Academy Awards. Ironically, it-the theme of the movie-shows exactly why it can't win. It's about dream, pure childish romantic hypocritical Hollywood dream, which any mature adult should not feel relatable. And that's it, haters will hate it so much, yet lovers will love it so much.

But the problem is not here. You can say that the theme is problematic: but it really does not matter, does it? Why cinema exists, why literature exists, why music exists: they were born to deal with the problematic aspect of life, of ideology, of philosophy. The thing that matters is not what it deals with, but how the story unfolds, how the repeated good old fashioned theme is interpreted, and that is the core of cinema as a form of art.

So love, life, dream-that's why this movie matters, because it chose the most universal cliches and turned those into the mixture of masterpieces. Literally, if you know the inspirations behind it.

And that's what baffles most people: did it tell a love story? Yes, but not really. Did it show what life really is like? Nope, not a chance, but metaphorically maybe? Did it tell us how to keep your dream and keep dreaming? In real life not in the way those kids did, but do you see the similar struggles behind those polished lifestyles?

Yes, THAT is why this movie matters: because it showed you, in the most unrealistic and ridiculously dreamy way, the beautiful musical way, the way that not a single one aspect of the story alone makes sense, that how life is like and what dream is about and how we struggle in love, yet it so accurately hit the spot that this is the exact feeling as when I live my own real life, when I dream my own realistic yet a bit out of reach dream, when I love and be loved and break my heart and feel the loss. I think the best part of this movie is it extracted the universal feeling that every romantic had at some point in his/her life, is that the story seems paper thin but oh the weight of the meaning behind it. The whole thing is like a huge metaphor, you must see it as a whole and what you see is not what you expect but what you feel is a pleasant surprise. The so-real-feel of the messed up nature of the mixture of dream love and life is what makes this movie really shine. And that is what it is: a huge beautifully amazing mess, isn't it? Not a comedy, a tragedy nonetheless.

But I understand why it is, regrettably, not a masterpiece: as a musical movie, there is no real dance nor sing at all(maybe excluding the audition part). That's like the nail in the coffin for a musical, although I understand they are just actors not broadway legends.

Speaking of Moonlight, these two movies are just the perfect examples of what I said, the total opposites: a realistic film with realistic unique theme, and a romantic one with romantic universal theme. No wonder why the former wins: dreams can only be dreams, no matter how beautiful they seem to be you really can not count on the ridiculous fool who dreams. And that, sadly, is how the real world operates: in the end, the movie, like the fools in it, saw the marvelously beautiful yet heartbreaking ending, that all the satisfying glory never existed. We are just broken ragged dolls who fight, struggle, then seem to possess everything yet have nothing really matters in the end.