In April 2019, I watched the musical La La Land for the first time at Kinema Junpo Theater. I was really moved by the serious and sophisticated movie, yet the optimistic musical The Greatest Showman, which I watched one week later, was quite amusing, moreover, its music was too fantastic to remember how moved I had been by La La Land, though I thought that I would watch it again someday in a relaxed mood every time I saw the movie title on the internet. Then, in January 2021, I finally watched it at Marunouchi Piccadilly, a theater in Tokyo, again.
The film follows a young man and a young woman.
The man is a jazz pianist. The woman goes for an actress. They are drawn to each other and encourage themselves to chase their respective dreams.
The young man and woman firstly meet in a
traffic jam when they have ill feelings against each other. They meet again
when Mia has a bad feeling against Seb but she was at least attracted by his piano
performance. After that, they encounter in a party when they gradually become
friends and finally start to date with each other. They also encourage themselves to make their respective dreams come true.
At the beginning, Mia looks unappealing, so I suspected
that Emma Stone playing Mia had become unattractive before I knew it. She,
however, gets increasingly pretty as she becomes friends and starts to date
with Seb. I was really impressed by how she gets attractive falling in love
with him. I thought that Ryan Gosling also gave a wonderful performance as Seb,
all the same, I felt that Stone's performance was more fantastic.