Hail Caesar in 1950's Hollywood

This Coen Brothers film is both confusing and entertaining. The confusion is around whether we are watching the films being produced or the drama behind the scenes; are we watching or living the dreams that are being created across several movies? The entertaiment is led by George Clooney in leather sandals and a toga, Scarlett Johansson as an emerald mermaid diving into a pool of red and yellow synchronised swimmers, a brilliant sequence of sailors tap dancing on table tops in a small bar and a submarine emerging and disappearing into the ocean! There are many random scenes linked together in 1950's memorabilia and style. And the storyline takes us into the life choices of Eddie Mannix who is too busy trying to solve all the problems of the actors and filmmakers at Capitol Pictures to be either a family man or be seduced into a corporate position in the nuclear enabled defence force. We enjoy Ralph Fiennes playing a patient director, coaching a singing cowboy to speak with style. It is fun watching Tilda Swinton playing twin sisters competing as journalists in brilliant suits and stylish hats. The fact that George is kidnapped by a group of disgruntled screenwriters, pretending to be communist sympathisers in a Malibu waterfront mansion is another opportunity for ridicule of the morality and purpose of Hollywood....