What characterizes almost all Hollywood pictures is their inner emptiness.
This emptiness is compensated for by an outer impressiveness.
Such impressiveness usually takes the form of a truly grandiose realism.
Nothing is spared to make the setting, the costumes, all the surface details correct.
These efforts help to mask the essential emptiness of the characterization, the absurdities and trivilities of the plots.
The houses look like houses, the streets look like streets, the people look and talk like people.
But they are empty of humanity, credibility and motivation.
Needless to say, the disgraceful censorship code is an important factor in predetermining the content the these pictures.
But the code does not disturb the profits, not the entertainment value of the films. It merely helps to prevent them from being credible. It's not too heavy a burden for the industry to bear.
In addition to the impressiveness of the settings, there is a use of the camera which at times seems magical. But of what human import is all this skill, all this effort, all this energy in the production of effects, when the story, the representation of life is hollow, stupid, banal, childish?
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