In today’s world of swipes and likes, fast and casual dating, hookups, and situationships, La La Land presents love in its truest essence. Love isn’t owning someone; it’s about seeing them spread their wings — with you, if you’re lucky, or without you. It’s about the respect that two people share with each other. In some cases, the purest forms of love demand that you choose yourself, instead of making sacrifices. If you’ve watched the movie, you probably remember the ending explicitly. But did you realize that Damien Chazelle gave away the ending of the movie in its opening song, Another Day of Sun?In this article, we’ll decode the hidden clue in the opening sequence to La La Land: the song sequence that predicted Seb (Ryan Gosling) and Mia’s (Emma Stone) fate way before their story even began.Analyzing The Song Let’s begin with the lyrics–‘I think about that dayI left him at the Greyhound station, west of Santa Fé We were 17, but he was sweet, and it was trueStill, I did what I had to doCause I just knew”Ahem! That’s literally Mia from the future, talking through someone else! That’s her and Seb’s story, reimagined! She was 27 and Seb was 28 when they met, but notice how the song cites them as teenagers? And why not? What they had was young love that turned them into kids whenever they were together. Engrossed in each other, it was two kids against the world, until they parted ways. If you...
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