La La Land

Oh I loved the ending!

Haha at the picture.

I got the idea that this was the point. Chazelle was barely 30 when the film was made, so I thought he wanted to do a film of "his" kind of people. Middle/upper middle class millennials who romanticize the idea of being a struggling artist. Emma Stone's character was a bit more well-adjusted in my opinion, but Ryan Gosling (who was too old for the role and miscast, I thought the part was probably written specifically for Miles Teller who was cast first and then dropped out) was the archetype of a pretentious hipster who firmly opposed the modernization of something (jazz) that he was too young to even have experienced in the ways of his idols. He thought being uncompromising on his own ideas was more important than things like money or jobs, hence the struggling.

This is why I liked the film so much, it was a very apt modern take on the age old trope. It's being a "starving artist" for the kind of people who'd choose to find their food in a Brooklyn trashbin rather than need to do so in order to survive. I'm not trying to be judgmental by the way, downshifting is very fine and sometimes it's good to not compromise on one's own ideals. But it's a different mindset than these characters would have had if the movie was set in the 1920s.

Yes, she seemed to be privileged and to some extent I understand what you mean by saying that her character was not well developed. Although sometimes dreams can shatter and pass you by even though one is privileged. Maybe she did take a drama course but maybe it did not work out for her. Even though the house seemed to be a good one, I saw it as it was not enough because she did not want to stay there if she wanted to make it big and get by on her own terms. You are right, she was probably struggling more in every other aspect. 

I think he did it because it is what he is: middle/upper class. There is no criticism either for Emma's character nor Gosling's. They both are glamorized. They both have their dreams and achieved them with little sacrifice. Yes, they had to not fulfill their love/relationship but is not as if they couldn't do so and still realize their dreams. By the way I think the end is very likable. They were in love and it is natural that they'd feel nostalgia of something that could have been.
The character of Gosling is more a struggling artist, imo, he had to do things he didn't like to survive, I think his views on jazz (which Chazelle don't criticize either) have nothing to do with he struggling or not. His accepting (more or less) to do jobs which he loathed for opening his club where he could play the music he wanted is a thing I understand. Here, if you want to be a musician, or an actor, you have to play on bars, teach music, play on birthdays, parties or have another job not related
]igs[/a][/span] said:

I don't understand either the "starving artist" much, to be honest. This film reminded me of the film Hunger