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La La Land Is Not a Love Story. It Is a Film About Two People Who Chose Themselves.
La La Land is one of the most visually beautiful films of the last decade. It is also, on honest inspection, a film about two people who are so consumed by their own ambitions that their relationship was always going to be a casualty of those ambitions. The tragedy is not that they could not be together. It is that neither of them genuinely tried.
SSon·Jul 30, 2025·12 min read
