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The Day of the Locust
Drama
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to corrosive portraits of celebrity culture, frustrated outsiders, and the darkness beneath manufactured glamour.
- Tone
- bleak, surreal, satirical
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, loneliness, social cruelty, illusion, mass hysteria
- Setting
- 1930s, glittering film-industry studios and lonely Los Angeles neighborhoods
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