The milieu of Babylon, particularly at the film’s end, is staggeringly violent, and the atmosphere is tense and volatile. Was Los Angeles Really as Freewheeling and Violent as Babylon Suggests? If this had been true, Hollywood could not have become such a massively successful business so fast, catapulting to a position as the fourth-largest industry in the U.S.-behind only steel, automobiles, and railroads-by 1920, and Los Angeles would not have ballooned so quickly. At its worst, the movie suggests that everyone partied this hard all the time. No doubt this isolation at times promoted bohemian excess. At its best, Babylon conveys the free-floating, magic bubble where “the flickers” lived and worked while creating a new art form that had made them richer and more famous faster than anyone could have dreamed.
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