I'll keep it short sweet and simple. Amazing direction, cinematography, sound design, music score and script. It has an a really great theme: Love is selfless. Very romantic and brutal. The soundtrack and cinematography should blow you away. Pretty hard to not fall in love with Gosling in this film... or if you're too much of a "dude" for that then deep down you know you wanna be him... The character he plays I mean, not the actor. Okay. Just watch it. Everyone should like it. Albert Brooks gives an incredible surprise performance breaking far away from his usual that will blow you away.