Written by The Curmudgeon S un-drenched Hollywood hills and a symphony of car horns. Enter a loaded freeway, brimming with vehicles. And then the music starts; various faces singing the glories of how they left their old, perfectly sound lives behind in favour of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood dreams. Meanwhile, a traffic jam. Everyone is, both literally and figuratively, going nowhere. Such is the introductory sequence of Damien Chazelle's 2016 musical La La Land . For those unfamiliar with the plot, La La Land tells the story of an actress, Mia, and a jazz pianist, Sebastian, searching for success in Hollywood - to little avail. It doesn't take much to decipher the inherent irony of the opening scene of La La Land.  So many people, so much ambition, yet all that L.A. has in return is stasis, if not stagnation. While they warble their obliviousness to that fact in "another day of sun", the brutal difference between their expectations and reality becomes...