La La Land Laura Wilder

As the dramas of Sebastian and Mia's lives unfold in the foreground, we are given a glimpse of a steadier life in Laura, Sebastian's sister. At the start of the film she is encouraging Sebastian to go out dating and to stop hanging around the Van Beek. She doesn't for one second understand his obsession with jazz and thinks he's living like a hermit. She tries to get him on to a more secure, steady path. Although Sebastian clearly resists her, we see her life unfold in the way we might expect from her values. She gets engaged and then married, and five years later we see her with a young child. This is the alternative path: living a more secure life, and in this type of life, it is suggested, she is able to continue her romance, but we never see her being creative. She wins the love but—if indeed she had one like Sebastian's—she loses the dream.