Underscores the secret of Hollywood's obsession with illusion and success
Norma Desmond
Hopes of restoring her star and not adapt to the new film "the talkies"
Joe Gillis
Delusion to become a successful scriptwriter by traps into Norma's life which leads him in the risk life
Betty Schaefer
The only one that able to obtain the truth and faces the real world that she cannot be a stardom like what she desires
Billy Wilder wants to urge the audience to critically question and challenge their own role in maintaining the social delusion with their own outstanding, self-deception and accept the true world
