This scene was honestly incredibly powerful because the director completely tricked me emotionally. The first time Ali looks at Rue, I genuinely thought she had died or something terrible happened, but then the scene reassures the audience that she’s okay.
Then later the show revisits that exact same scene and reveals what actually happened, showing that Rue really did die, and honestly I thought that storytelling choice was perfection. The director understood psychologically that the audience desperately wanted Rue to survive, so naturally we accepted the hopeful version of events without questioning it too much. And then reality finally hits later on.
One thing I’m strangely grateful for though is that Rue died at Ali’s house. Out of every possible place, that honestly felt like the safest and most peaceful place for her final moments to happen. #euphoria
La La Land has a few really heart-breaking scenes but I think this is one of the saddest scenes I’ve seen in any film. Watching Mia & Sebastian’s love fall apart & then never really reconcile in the way I wanted to from this point forward is just flat-out sad. A beautiful film.