在这部蝗虫之日剧情/惊悚片中,每座城市都有无数追逐梦想的灵魂,在现实如蝗虫般凶残的掠食下,抓紧不愿迷失却又濒临疯狂的自我。 史上批判好莱坞、揭穿成名美梦最为严厉的电影! 好莱坞,娱乐界的首要舞台,梦想的第一垃圾场。 渴望成为艺术家的陶德,来到好莱坞寻求机会,从事布景绘制。木讷寡言的旅馆会计何默,年复一年受无趣的工作奴役,存了一笔积蓄后来到好莱坞度假。陶德和何默双双爱上一心想成为巨星的菲耶,然而贪慕虚荣的她并不放在心上。哈利去世了,为了能安葬父亲,菲耶当了应召女郎,托德对此非常气愤。似乎是有意气他,菲耶转而又同懦弱的霍梅尔同居,在将霍梅尔抓在手心后,菲耶又继续同其他人鬼混。霍梅尔发现了菲耶的勾当,菲耶索性不辞而别,不知所踪。大剧院门口聚集着一大群人,他们都在等待明星的到来。霍梅尔为了找寻菲耶,也来到了人潮汹涌的现场。这时,一名童星朝霍梅尔嘲笑,多日积聚的怨恨使霍梅尔失去了理智,愤怒将童星杀死,由此引发了一场巨大的群众骚乱。 在虚实难辨的逼真场景中,每个人都是自己心目中的大明星,却也都是现实世界的大配角。舞台灯光的炙烈曝射下,梦想赤裸现形,幻灭也无处躲藏。
Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Hollywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.