As Halloween kicks off, it’s the perfect time to rewatch one of our favorite movies—La La Land. If you bawled your eyes out, you are gonna love this new fan theory that suggests that a tiny mistake in the plot could have given us a completely different ending—maybe even the one we all wanted.
Could This ‘La La Land’ Theory Give Us the Ending We Hoped For?
Let’s go back to the heart of the film, where Mia (played by Emma Stone) is preparing to showcase her new one-woman play. Her biggest dream has always been acting, and this play is her way of making that dream come true.
When the play is ready, Mia starts emailing invitations to everyone she wants at the premiere—critics, producers, and potential industry insiders who could help launch her career.
However, as we know, the play is a flop.
Mia is devastated, breaks up with Sebastian, and returns home to her parents. Although they give their relationship one more shot, it doesn’t work out. They both go on to achieve their dreams, but their love story has to end.
But here’s where the theory comes in—what if there was a small mistake that, if avoided, could have changed the entire outcome?
According to this theory, Mia made a critical error when she sent out her invitation emails. Instead of using the ‘Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)’ feature, she sent them all together, which is a big no-no.
For those unfamiliar, group emails like that often get flagged as spam. So, many of Mia’s emails likely ended up in spam folders, meaning very few people even knew about her play. If she had used BCC, the emails would have landed directly in the recipients’ inboxes, possibly changing the turnout and the course of the film’s events.
This small detail might have triggered a butterfly effect, leading to the series of events that followed. Could Mia’s career (and her relationship with Sebastian) have turned out differently if more people had shown up?
This article was originally written in Spanish by Alan Cruz in Cultura Colectiva
