sunset boulevard
the lady is tweaked. she got all her money from silent film and then kidnaps a washed up writer, falls in love with him, and holds him close to captive. i love the shots of LA back in the late 40s/early 50s. the narrative that starts the film is dramatic. the film starts in the present and then drops back six months to describe how it happened. i’m a sucker for those movies.
ok mr. demille. i’m ready for my close-up.
i am big. it’s the pictures that got small.
man. the end is really tweaked. well done. the story of how a woman with too much money slowly drops into madness. and the story played out on film as if in a movie. the story wraps on itself and then ends with an exclamation.
i’m not usually as big a fan of older movies. harder to follow and less interesting and less realistic, but in this one i feel it worked on a lot of levels. i’d recommend it on a night chilling when you’re wide awake. too tired and you’ll cash in and too up for doing something and it’ll be too boring, but an amazing film.
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