The movie "Babylon" was the dark side of "La La Land"! Get intoxicated by the gorgeous, decadent, and frenzied Hollywood epic.

I watched it in IMAX on the opening day.

Set in the 1920s, the dawn of Hollywood known as the Golden Age, and during the transition from silent films to talkies, director Damien Chazelle confronts us with the question, "What is cinema?"

Why are people obsessed with movies?

Why are people so passionate about movies?

You will understand the answer after experiencing this film for three hours.

"Babylon" Movie Review
The movie "Babylon" was the dark side of "La La Land"! Get intoxicated by the gorgeous, decadent, and frenzied Hollywood epic.

Riding a crazy roller coaster swallowed by a flood of gorgeous and sensational visuals, it's a bacchanal! Obscene! Frenzied! Ecstatic! Get intoxicated by the long-take, gorgeous epic of a wild party. You just need to let yourself be swallowed by the torrent of images.

But the party isn't forever. It ends someday. The emptiness of it all. And yet, even after the banquet is over, for some reason, the jazz percussion sticks in my ears and won't let go. The endless beat still echoes in my brain.

Margot Robbie is explosive and transcendent. I couldn't take my eyes off her wild, destructive, and masterful performance.

Brad Pitt often appears in interesting movies, and I really think he has an amazing eye for projects. The range between the coolness of a star wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses, and the depth of the sorrow he feels being tossed about by the arrival of talkies, shakes the heart. Prosperity and decline are the way of the world. In a world of impermanence, nothing lasts forever.

Also, Tobey Maguire's bizarre performance was amazing.

It is also an unrequited love story, depicting the heaven, nightmares, and cruel ends of fleeting dreamers, with comedy and tragedy alternating in rapid succession. It could be called the dark side of "La La Land," but I give the edge to the romanticism of "La La Land."

By the way, "Singin' in the Rain" is symbolically quoted in this film, but it was also paid homage to in "La La Land" in the scene where Seb spins around while holding onto a lamppost. It must be an important work for director Chazelle.

The long-gone filmmakers, full of reckless courage and ambition, are no longer in this world. It is a requiem for those departed filmmakers, and for some reason, tears overflow at the foolishness and fragility of the endless dreams and desires of people obsessed with cinema.

The climax, which radiates the entire history of cinema, is like a kaleidoscope of scenes before death, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" meets "Cinema Paradiso."

It is a superb piece of entertainment that depicts the madness of director Damien Chazelle through vivid visuals and sound, so I definitely want you to see it in a theater.

Personally, I am glad I saw this movie.

I also understood the distance I want to keep from movies.

The scenery the Mexican man who drowned in dreams and love in Hollywood saw at the end, and that expression on his face, says it all.

I lived as a filmmaker for over 10 years, and although it doesn't even reach 1/100th of this film, I was reminded of the days when I experienced the glamour and magic of the film world.

"I want to be part of something big that lasts a long time," the Mexican man said, speaking of the romance of living in the film world, and I truly felt that way back then too.

But now, rather than shooting movies until dawn,
I want to go home to my family sooner.

Seeing this movie made me realize once again that I am an ordinary person, not a filmmaker.

PARTY IS OVER

The movie ends, and life begins.

That is how it felt.