“Because “La La Land” is at its heart all about longing for an era in which showy choreography and saturated color could elevate inconsequential first-world troubles into epic distraction. One where — other than John Legend — only white people matter enough to have dialogue, and where Ryan Gosling’s Sebastian can be unironically presented as saving jazz from black sellouts, like Legend’s character.”
My favorite line: “Because in today’s Trumpmerica, longing for a “simpler era” has a set of concealed teeth.“
It always has tbh, but right now, taking an uncritical view of nostalgia is actually harmful. We have proof that glorifying nostalgic white fantasy has real-world repercussions. This of all years is not the year an "Old Hollywood” love letter should be sweeping the Oscars.
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