Damien Chazelle creates a bold and colorful musical that tackles an ambitious, emotional, and unique narrative about self-doubt, settling, and compromise. It also serves as a love-letter from Chazelle to old Hollywood and classic musicals while pushing the genre forward.
But let's talk about the Epilogue.
La La Land defies its mixture of a musical romantic genre and gives the audience a bittersweet ending that forces us to watch a fantasy play out of what could have been for our…