The classic noir. A dark reflection of Hollywood itself, the past glory and the present dream. It's a film about films, some might even argue that it is *the* film about films. The unstoppable progression from silent films to words had worn the “star of yesteryear”. The tangled, unfulfilled ambitions of four parties boiled into an ending of blood and tears, yet still, they're in the dream of Hollywood, the place that makes dreams. The casting of Gloria Swanson blurred the fictitious and the real, it is such a brilliant idea that it lifted Swanson from falling into the same fate as “the madam”. You know, speaking of the fictitious bleeding into the realm of reality.
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