Fern’s Flix Reviews

La La Land and Moonlight are forever intertwined due to the 2017 Oscar Night Best Picture debacle. It’s probably the second most infamous thing to happen on an awards stage and certainly the first at the time it happened. It really couldn’t have happened to two more differently crafted films. Moonlight’s the kind of film that could be made with a group of actors and no budget and still be exactly what it was. La La Land needed the backing of its namesake. Both came to me at the exact right time i needed to see it. I watched Moonlight for the first time during its 5th anniversary in ‘21 and today for La La’s 10th.

21 year old me was beginning to deconstruct my upbringing under religion and took the first steps into realizing i was queer. I watched it with someone i was at the time in love with.

Today as a 26 year old trans woman, i got to see a sincerely human display of what it’s really like to fall out of love with someone you used to, with someone who i have the pleasure of being completely awestruck over. It was so easy to feel the hurt for past me and my former love and am so thankful to see now how much better life is when you cut out everything that isn’t right for your spirit.

Even when you fall out of love, or when you are questioning yourself and your identity, follow your spirit. it is never going to lead you astray.