Sunset Boulevard Themes

Hollywood is, like, totally fake. It's full of fake people doing fake things with fake expressions on their fake faces. According to Sunset Boulevard, the folks who drive the glitzy streets of La L...

Sometimes, you're dissatisfied because repo men are trying to take your car. Sometimes, you're dissatisfied because people have forgotten that you're a celebrity and left you alone in your giant, d...

In Sunset Boulevard there are only two kinds of lies: the ones you tell everyone else, and the ones you tell yourself. The question is, which one is more deadly? First, we can see Max deceiving Nor...

Sunset Boulevard may be where the stars are, but Madness-with-a-capital-M is the ultimate destination. That's where Norma's self-deceptions finally lead. Unable to deal with the fact that she's jus...

Poor Joe. He doesn't even intend to live at Norma's mansion in Sunset Boulevard, but Max—her servant—has all of his things moved in without Joe requesting it. That's a pretty big violation of s...

In small doses, most people would probably say that pride isn't a bad thing—it's more like self-respect. But when pride grows in power, it quickly becomes deformed and kind of monstrous. In Sunse...