"La La Land" (2016)

"We are all visitors here," said Hugo H.

"Everything passes," said Maricela N.

"Now, you can't live your life like that..." said Woody A.

All passionate to be and to create and, in that, all citizens of the world that has grown out of the Republic of Letters, and that has been taking refuge anywhere they would dance to jazz and beauty is not legislated.

"La La Land" comes from that world. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling can neither sing nor dance. But the film is not about singing or dancing. It is about living, which is singing and dancing, and playing, and wagering, and daring, and hiding, and winning and losing, but never looking back for too long. Stone and Gosling can do that.

The musical does not attempt to resuscitate the Musical. Instead, "La La Land" aims at inventing the musical. It is a litmus test of the past seventy-eighty years of the civilisation. If progress has been made, the invention would differ from, and, in some ways, surpass, the original. It is a better world now indeed.

One should not mourn the world that could have been, for that is the world that has made the world that is here today possible.