“Finally watched La La Land. Unbelievably, it’s even worse than Damien Chazelle’s previous terrible film, Whiplash. Both movies feel like they were directed by computers, except computers have more genuine feelings. Not only that, La La Land is one of the most reactionary films to come down the pike in quite some time. Its problematic depiction of jazz and race has been well documented. So has its regressive treatment of the female protagonist, who is written strictly as a male fantasy. The ending of the film completely reinforces heteronormativity (there are no gay characters in a film about Hollywood!) and the dominant order by tying up all the loose ends with capitalist complacency and nuclear family repression. It’s truly a disaster of a movie, one of the worst films about Hollywood I have ever seen. Watch Scorsese’s New York, New York again instead, another homage to classical Hollywood musicals that is truly subversive, unwaveringly feminist, more imaginatively and beautifully shot (by Laszlo Kovaks!), and deeply emotional. Or even watch Coppola’s One From the Heart, which is a bit of a mess, but underrated and much more interesting and complex than Blah Blah Land.”
(Bruce LaBruce auf Facebook)
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