In a city where thirty-million-dollar homes share a sidewalk with sleeping figures, Chris Rock has turned his camera on Los Angeles not as spectacle but as symptom. His new film, 'Misty Green,' follows a forgotten actress through a landscape that has always known how to discard what it no longer finds useful. At 61, Rock is less interested in Hollywood's glamour than in its grammar — the quiet, practiced way a society learns to step over what it prefers not to see.
Chris Rock on LA's 'underbelly': Fame's dark side in Hollywood
Homelessness in Los Angeles depicted as a visible social problem contrasted with extreme wealth concentration.