Damien Chazelle, who is nominated for an Oscar for his musical La La Land, says songs are "an expression of inner feelings that can't be articulated any other way."Originally broadcast Jan 5, 2017. A new musical set in Los Angeles inspired in part by some of the great old movie musicals. Anthony Lane wrote in The New Yorker magazine that the film is a kaleidoscope of color and dance and music and love and that the plot is fairly straightforward. The sun ignites. The song explodes.
In a world marred by war, inequality and division, there is no better medicine than La La Land to momentarily forget such ills. Simply, the musical is one of the best (and most healthy) forms of escapism. It seems implicit then that La La Land is a product of the past, an incarnation of an almost forgotten genre.

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