Sunset Boulevard Review (1950)

The Sunset Boulevard is an interesting movie that had been shot in the 50’s, by the director Billy Wilder.
This film highlights an actress named Gloria Swanson, she was a famous actress of silent movies. We can portray her as Norma Desmond in this feature film. Her character was an elegant shocking woman with mental illness. She couldn’t get away from the idea of losing her fame, since her job as a “silent actress”. And she wasn’t the only one, various actors lost their job because they couldn’t make the transition to the Sound movies.

Joe Gillis, a young man, gives up his dream (temporarily) of being a writer until he meets Norma who makes him work for her. But gradually she falls in love or a better word: obsession.
But all this episode is driving Gillis crazy. He falls in love with Betty, which is his best friend’s girlfriend. We can call this relationship: an impossible love!

I give this movie a mark of 7/10 because Norma’s behaviors were a little bit disturbing: like the way she talks and how she acts with the people she meets. She is very ethnocentric and possessive. By example when she made bring Gills’s belonging without asking him. Or maybe when she somehow obligated Gill to stay with her by manipulating him and without considering Gill’s thoughts and feelings. But I did like how they proceed to capture the images, the angles and the quality of the movie, a thought it was very good for a 50’s movie. I recommend this movie if you want to discover the cinema’s world back in the 50’s. Enjoy!