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What is procrastination?
someone: how's work?
me: it's work
someone: ok but.. how is it going?
me: making money
someone: .......how are you doing w/ it, though? emotionally? mentally?
me, after leaning in and pausing for an uncomfortable amount of time and clearing my throat, absolutely no light or life in my eyes: money

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: The greatest part of ‘La La Land’ is that Sebastian never truly gets over Mia, even with five years and her marriage separating them; he remains alone after her successful audition and goes on to fund his own dream (which is successful but nowhere near the heights of her personal fame), but the epilogue reveals that he regrets his choices in life and believes he should’ve tossed aside his own dreams in order to fully support hers. 99% of the time, it’s expected that the female character has to drop her dreams in order to support her love interest’s (and they actually played with that, in Seb inviting her to come with the band to Idaho two weeks before her show premiered), and the fact that they defied expectations and made it about her and what she wanted, rather than just succumbing to helping him and his desires, makes the bittersweetness of the ending more profound