Most of all, the moment we meet again, we see the life we have missed.

just finished reading the Chinese translation of La La Land (as "La La City"), it was really a little surprise at the end of the year. The plot of the film is not complex, the topic discussed is also familiar, from the ideological level is not refreshing, but in the emotional treatment, it is very moving.

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from a love point of view, it is actually a typical Hollywood boy-meets-girl story type. The heroine Mia (Emma Stone) is a would-be actress who is still auditioning and hitting a brick wall. She has to work in a cafe during the day to make ends meet.

the hero Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a piano accompanist who is preoccupied with playing jazz. Two unsuccessful people met, fell in love and encouraged each other and spent a short romantic time. There is always a twist in the story, young people have to grow up, daydreams have to wake up, life is going to change, and the change here began when Sebastian signed up with a popular band as a keyboard player. The band is closer to pop music, touring everywhere, and is a steady, well-paid job, but it has little to do with the music Sebastian aspires to, the career he wants to accomplish (opening a jazz bar, playing real jazz, conveying jazz's improvisation and spirit of change). Mia asks him why he made this choice, while Sebastian feels that he is trying to be a good man and partner to meet Mia's expectations. Mia is dissatisfied with his success because his career has improved, which makes Mia feel less superior when he gets along with him. The two broke up in discord that night, and the next day Mia wrote and directed and acted in the premiere of the play (few people went to), Sebastian and missed it because of work, and Mia was extremely disappointed in his career and love. Then there was an audition, and Sebastian persuaded Mia to go. After the audition, Sebastian had a premonition of Mia's future success and impending separation. At the end of the film, Mia and Sebastian, who have their own lives, are reunited five years later.

movies can also be counted as the growth theme of young adult. Chris Stuckmann, a YouTube film critic, said many viewers thought the film was a love letter to LA in Los Angeles because La La Land itself is a nickname for Los Angeles. But in his view, the film is actually a love letter to passionate people, to those who stick to their dreams with enthusiasm. That's why I said the film didn't bring forth new ideas in terms of theme. Sticking to the dream of vs to face reality is really an old-fashioned topic. I feel that I have been cut from 80,000 angles by various literary works and chicken soup articles. There is a reason for any choice, and it is understandable, but what makes people willing to chase and be dazzled or heartbroken is a scam called "possibility", a fishhook marked "what if", you and me in a parallel world.

anyone who has seen the same humanities knows that one of the major motivations of the same people is, what if. If you hadn't met, if you had met earlier, if you had met later, if you had met in a different time and space, in a different place, the story would have been opened in a completely different way. And at the end of the movie, ten minutes, is a perfect "what if" proposition composition.

five years later, Mia has a family of her own, a wife and mother, a successful career, and settled in LA. One evening, taking a walk with her husband after supper, they inadvertently entered a jazz bar, which happened to be owned by Sebastian. Logo used the same design that Mia designed for him when they were madly in love. It's old-fashioned and sensational, but it's really easy to cry. Mia saw another trajectory of his life in a trance since Sebastian came to the stage to play the piano, and so did Sebastian. If, if I had kissed you and hugged you at that time, if I had not signed a band at that time, if I had appeared at your premiere, if I had accompanied you to Paris, would we have been a couple, the parents of a baby? we came to this bar after dinner and saw another young man dreaming of music playing melodiously, while we clasped our fingers off the stage.

when I saw this paragraph, I really remembered a scene that my sister told me. At that time, she and the boy she liked were facing graduation from their respective things, she was going back to China, and the boy was going to Europe. Both of them knew that there was no future, so they only grasped the present and had fun. The two went on a trip together, to live in a cabin in the big forest, and after a few days of isolation, they all agreed that they would go their separate ways with no regrets when they came back. Unfortunately, only a few days after coming back, the boy got sick and had a fever. He had agreed not to see each other again, but he played tricks and asked his sister to take care of him. The younger sister had no way, so she went to accompany him, cooked porridge for him and told him to drink water. At the end of the day, they were very sad.

my sister told me, "because I suddenly realized clearly what kind of future I can't have and what kind of possibility between me and him." So everyday, so specific, so clear that you can see and realize what kind of life you want to give up. This is much more heartbreaking than the abstract "I can't be with him".

La La Land ends with such a specific heartache. If we say that the previous separation is just a concept, and the reunion after five years of separation, it paradoxically makes you realize that you are no longer together, separated, and how the specific and subtle fact is that you have lost your life henceforth. It is that you can no longer be the father of my children, and we only have the fate to look at each other on and off the stage.

Yi Wei wrote a film review of "the City of Glass".To "Life has the fate that you must finish", it is said that this film is actually about the love problem that everyone will encounter, knowing that they will be separated sooner or later, why are they together? Knowing that there may be a future if you hold on a little longer, why can't you come up with a penny of willpower? So, La La Land, actually tells a similar story. There are no misunderstandings, there are no natural and man-made disasters, but it is so difficult for people to fall in love with each other, even eating meals is a fate to cherish.

if I knew that we only had this short period of fate, that we had walked into a person's world so comprehensively and meticulously, and then walked out of each other's lives without a wisp, if I could know what I really gave up and what I missed-at least, we have danced together in the rosy sunset of Los Angeles and have been illuminated by the bright stars of the city.

Thank you for dreaming with me.