Film noir is usually used to refer to a special style of crime film. The director's concern is often not the truth of the case, but the corruption of sex and morality and the thinking it brings. "Chinatown" has a little bit of film noir. The private detective Jack used to be a policeman. Once, a woman who claimed to be Mrs. Morales approached him and asked him to investigate her husband’s affair, just as Jack discovered Morales, the same young woman. When evidence of cheating, the real Mrs. Morale appeared and asked Jack to stop his investigation. Jack thinks that there is another mystery in this. Just as he started investigating, Morale was found drowning in an almost dry river bed, and the police actually thought he had died by suicide. The police’s instinct made Jack unable to sit by and watch. Gradually, Jack realized that he seemed to have died. Close to an extremely ugly truth, and this truth is threatening his safety.
The protagonist Jack is played by Jack Nicholson. His "shark laugh" that fans talk about is destined to be unable to play a downright decent character. Look at his resume, "The Shining", "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Asylum", "Easy Rider" and "Perfectly Beautiful" are either out-of-the-art lunatics, or arrogant and evil lone rangers. It is Nicholson's unique temperament that has created the black atmosphere in "Chinatown".
The private detective, to put it bluntly, is to make a fortune by digging other people’s privacy. It is not a glorious profession, and the various unscrupulous methods hidden in it give such a profession a gray veil, but in cold-hard mystery novels In the movie, private detective is a popular profession. The Jack in the film is a bit like Brock’s Matthew Skard, with a dark past on his back, walking in the gray area between good and evil. He wants to get rid of The decadent ethos and disgusting crimes in the workplace have found myself unconsciously involved in ugly conspiracies time and time again.
There is no good and evil in "Chinatown". If he insists on dividing, Jack can barely be regarded as the righteous side, but this kind of justice is at best "not so evil." The scene, I feel terrified when I think about it now, how can a decent man beat a woman, let alone this woman slept with him.
The film is called Chinatown, but only the last scene actually takes place in Chinatown. More moments, it is a hint, synonymous with lawlessness in hiding dirt and dirt, and a system that cannot be changed. symbol of. Jack's assistant said to him: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." It seems that this is the best excuse to get out of the way. Once, Jack left his job angrily because of the injustice that occurred in Chinatown, but now, even as a free man, he still cannot prevent the repeat of the mistakes. In the face of rights, everyone is vulnerable, and righteous. It is because of this fragility that created the legend of unshakable power. Chinatown, it is both cause and effect, flattery and worship of rights will eventually lead to the destruction of rights.
The set of the movie is very interesting, especially the scene where Jack reveals the truth. The courtyard, palm trees, pond, and even the sky seem to be fake, with a very dramatic color. The actors are very close to the camera and seem to be separated from the scene. Outside the whole scene. Although the plot does not take place at night, the overall light is weak, and there is a strong light hitting, causing half of the actor's face to be immersed in the dark, and the other half exposed to the strong light, which also adds to the film’s "black" "Element. The most outstanding feature of "Chinatown" is its script, which is intertwined with needles inside. If you get distracted during the filming process, you can easily fail to grasp the plot. For every foreshadowing and foreshadowing, the screenwriter carefully arranges, so at the end When the burden is shaken, the director does not need to deliberately create an atmosphere of horror, it is enough to shock the audience. There are not many lines in the movie, but there is nothing superfluous when the lines are in place. I think this is Polanski’s restraint and compassion. He insists on using this pessimistic ending because he chooses the hard way under the night and neither I would like to close my eyes and swim in my dreams. The eyes behind his lens must be buried with hot coals, even if they are extinguished, there will be residual warmth.
At the end of Jack’s slumped departure, what’s outside of the picture is Noah, the black hand behind the whole incident, and the police station under his control. It is these policemen who “belong to him” killed his daughter. His expression at the moment How should it be? He lost a daughter and gained another daughter and granddaughter. It may be disdain or satisfaction after the conspiracy has succeeded. For such a bastard who committed the crime of incest but still said "I don't blame myself", it is already a thing that can be discarded and taken at any time. Come to arm yourself with an empty skin.
What impressed me most was the line, "Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything". Noah is the person at the right time and the right place. , Who can we blame, time? Blame location? Is he still to blame?
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