La La Land:

Dreamy, Bitter-sweet, Tender

In art, you step into another’s shoes—another life, full of passion and misery, love and compassion, excitement and fear. Art allows one person to live a thousand stories in a single lifetime.

With art, people’s stories become part of our own; they give us a moment of empathy, of stepping into a stranger’s world and feeling what they felt. When we allow ourselves to feel—to dwell, to yearn, to mourn, to remember, and to relate—we truly live, as though we were part of that story. Stories of love and adventure, passed from generation to generation through movies, music, and poetry.

This movie was a hymn to love and dreams, to meeting people—people who pass like the seasons and never return. People whose paths cross ours for just a moment, but whose words, love, and perspectives stay with us for a lifetime. We reminisce about those moments, those people.

The raw feelings of uncertainty in relationships—not knowing whether this person will be your future or just a fleeting memory; whether he will be your home, or someone else’s.

This movie had the pain of doubt in love; the early- acceptance of a breakup; the ache of knowing it will never be the same.

The story between Mia and Sebastian was everything: a blend of tenderness and hope—two individuals with dreams beyond their relationship, learning how to make it work, how not to fall apart while staying true to themselves.

Their story was everything that jazz is: each instrument on its own journey, coming together in harmony to create something fiery and beautiful. Like Sebastian and Mia, who each played their own tunes in life, meeting at just the right moments to create something extraordinary.

This is a real story—not just of love, but of fleeting friendships, cherished memories, and the timeless question that lingers in so many hearts:

What if?

What if I had stayed?

What if our stories had aligned a little longer?

This is what the story made me wonder—What if he they had held on through the rough times?Was it not worth their love?

The ending of the movie broke me—and I loved it at the same time. It broke me because they couldn’t end up together, and I loved it because it was so real—so reflective of how many relationships fall apart not from lack of love, but from differences, from timing that didn’t quite align.

It was raw. It was beautiful. It was heartbreaking. And I loved it.

Thank you to the incredible actors—Ryan Gosling, whose Notebook still leaves me teary-eyed every time, and Emma Stone, whose acting is captivating—to the music, the dancers, and the dreamlike scenes that made this story unforgettable.

Rating of the movie: 9/10