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To whither into the sunset...

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Life starts with a bang, snowballs into a gamut of cellular mash, develops its own dreams and desires, achieve it or least attempts at it, slows down afterwards and rides into the sunset... Along with this transformation, the psyche will ensure that the ebbs and highs are nicely handled so that the mass does not become a mess to others around. This mostly is the theme behind 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950). It is a sad tale of a financially challenged struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), escaping the clutches of the car re-possessors, drives into a garage of an apparently abandoned mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He is ushered in mistakenly thought to be a funeral parlour technician who has come into assists in doing the final rites of a chimpanzee of the owner of the palatial house, an over the hill silent film era star, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson - a silent movie star herself). Corpse of Gillis floating in Desmond's pool in th...