Hollywood in the 30s. Broken dreams, Hollywood society etc

The characters were good. The cinematography was exellent (it told the story better than dialogue at times.) There just wasn't enough great scenes or plot development to make the whole movie exciting for the whole duration. It could have been shorter. There were a lot of immoral acts and then immoral people making choices that made Hollywood seedy, I get that, but that was too big of a repetitive theme. The ending was so over dramatic that it was like a nail in a coffin. It felt like a shock ending was used as means to and end, in that it created an illusion a great tension beforehand. I didn't care that the boy dressed as a girl got stamped to death. All the characters were very unlikeable apart from Homer who was designed to have sympathy for then kill. I didn't really care much about him either. When the movie got it right in the story telling with the cinematography it was pretty awesome but it never lasted.