“Heartbreaking” Oscar frontrunner’s caucasian protagonists only end up with almost everything

Critics are raving about the new musical La La Land saying “this is why we go to movies”. The positive word of mouth makes it a frontrunner for the Academy Awards.

In the film, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling play two caucasian adults who pursue and attain both financial and creative success in their fields. Emma Stone plays a young woman named Mia pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles. By the end of the film Mia becomes an internationally renowned film actress, with a husband and child. Ryan Gosling plays Mia’s love interest Sebastian, a caucasian male who sets out to save Jazz music, a genre which originated amongst African Americans in the early 20th century in New Orleans. By the end of the film Sebastian owns his own Jazz night club, thus saving Jazz.

During the film, Mia and Sebastian date for a one year period and their relationship ends amicably. In what some are calling the “heartbreaking” finale of the film, Mia and Sebastian are reminded that they are no longer in a relationship together and that they have both achieved the staggering financial and artistic success that was their characters goals.

The industry buzz is that this film is a hit with the Academy, an organization that has been struggling for years to bring diversity and representation to this Oscars. And critics are in agreement that this film, in which two heterosexual caucasian protagonists achieve commercial success in Hollywood, is exactly what The Academy is looking for.