Man this film is dark! There is literally nobody to root for. On the one hand you have the Young Hollywood that abandoned the stars of yesteryear in favor of talking pictures. On the other hand you have the Old Hollywood that insulated its stars so far from reality that they are incapable of functioning in proper society. It’s like a monster movie. Norma Desmond is a symbol of a rotten past, come to wreak havoc on the still corrupt present. But what is gained in the end? Will the events of this film change anything in that awful system? Of course not! It will just become fodder for the nightly news and eventually be forgotten in a matter of weeks. There are no winners here. Only losers. Remove the witty Wilder/Bracket banter and what you are left with is a film as bleak as Foxcatcher.
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