Sunset

Edna 2022-03-22 09:01:21

A good movie can often combine multiple themes seamlessly into a wonderful story, and "Sunset Boulevard" is obviously such a movie.
Who can understand the loneliness of tomorrow's yellow flowers, and who knows the cruel choices of Hollywood. There is heartbreaking love here, and there are dreams that are shattered by reality. At the end of the film, when the close-up of "Norma" gradually loses focus, the dazzling sun of the silent film era on Sunset Boulevard gradually burns out of its brilliance.
The film vividly depicts various forms of love, including "Norma"'s dependence on "Gillis", "Gillis"'s love for "Xia Fei", and "Gillis"'s sympathy for "Norma". There is also "Max"'s obsession with "Norma", and the characters with distinct personalities are intertwined into a complex and tangled love network. Love is "Gillis"'s escape from reality, love is "Xia Fei"'s yearning for the future, love is "Max"'s protection of the past, and love is "Norma"'s dependence on life. Love makes everyone dizzy, and love is also an external manifestation of their dreams in life. The rich elements of love also reflect the sadness of the film industry that shattered the dreams of countless people.
Gloria Swanson, who plays "Norma", is literally the soul of this film, I can even feel the love and sympathy she puts into the character, but also the fate of the character The helplessness and madness that gave her. "Norma" is a great actor, as can be seen from the admiration that many of the studio staff have for her. However, those people are old, so old that their hair is gray, and silent movies are old, so old that there is no trace of them. "Norma" is also old, but she locks herself in sweet memories and doesn't want to come out, so she's crazy, and her madness is the sadness of an old artist.
Everyone knows that movies are dream factories, but "Sunset Boulevard" tells us that it is also the tomb of dreams.

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Extended Reading
  • Jacklyn 2022-03-21 09:01:23

    Terrible, super scary atmosphere, probably the darkest Billy Wilder film noir. The protagonist's character and behavior are very complex, and it is not a disgusting parenting story in a simple sense. The two acting systems are perfectly compatible, and the performances of several actors are fantastic. The counter-record of the history of Hollywood's development must be quite courageous in the context of the times. The ending is shocking.

  • Ransom 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    8.4 Rewatch, Billy Wilder's black masterpiece, once again I hate this arrogant, disgusting and twisted woman, I can't deny her acting skills, William Holden is also dwarfed, I love the ending, without this ending, the movie is dead most of them.

Sunset Blvd. quotes

  • Norma Desmond: [Norma thinks Joe is a funeral director] I'd like the coffin to be white, and I want it specially lined with satin. White... or pink. Maybe red! Bright flaming red! Let's make it gay!

  • Joe Gillis: I'm not an executive, just a writer.

    Norma Desmond: You are, are you? Writing words, words, more words! Well, you'll make a rope of words and strangle this business! With a microphone there to catch the last gurgles, and Technicolor to photograph the red, swollen tongues!