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The unfortunate prescience of Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)

“The New York Times compared the recalcitrant Trump, refusing to concede defeat and surrounded by a thinning flock of enablers, to Desmond at her end, when “the dream she had clung to so desperately enfolded her.” Wilder’s film plays on the change over two decades in a technology which in 1910 seemed endlessly fresh and benevolent; one hundred years later, social media has taken the place of the silent film, but the song remains the same.”

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