Sunset Boulevard - 6

An interesting film for Hollywood to make seeing as how it is very unflattering to the movie business. This 1950 classic really shows how people can get caught up in their fame. In this case, former star, Norma Desmond steps out of a responsible storied living and start to believe a fiction as a truth about her own life. As she goes through this no one in her life can tell her otherwise and when her life starts to fall apart she can't see it because of the story she thinks she is living. She has so convinced herself that in the end the line between right and wrong has been completely obliterated. The main character, Joe Gillis, is a more realistic character as he is just using whatever means he can to survive, even if he has sold his soul, he trades in the art of script writing for the industry of entertainment. When he finally comes to himself he finds his untimely end. The beginning of this film reminded me a bit of American Beauty, although it should be vice versa, since it comes 50 years later. They both have some similar critique of the social world that Americans live in.