To show the darkness is to call the light

Alycia 2022-03-23 09:01:16

It’s better to do nothing than to do nothing, the less the better it becomes Jack’s nightmare.

Chinatown is a metaphor where darkness is stronger than justice. If you want to survive peacefully, you must learn to keep one eye open

Many years ago Jack was a young policeman with a sense of justice, but his sense of justice in Chinatown became his disaster.

She tried so hard to protect a woman but ended up harming this woman

From then on, he left Chinatown and left this dark and sad place and opened a private detective to investigate some extramarital affairs all day long to make a living. He also became cynical. He buried his sincerity deeply in the past and faced the world with a hippie smile.

As a result, he lied to others but couldn’t lie to himself. No matter how much he suppressed his inner sense of justice, he still couldn’t extinguish the accident. After he was involved in a conspiracy, he could have escaped, but he got deeper and deeper.

Fateful history repeats itself again

He fell in love with a poor woman

At first I approached this woman because of suspicion

Later, I suspected that the two people would show off their mutual love

Then I was wise to doubt this woman again and almost identified her as the murderer

Finally, after I finally understand all the dark truths, I know how pitiful this woman is

He desperately wanted to help the woman escape. He failed once before. This time he must succeed, so he is willing to pay any price.

But the sad thing is that the woman died in the end

Justice finally lost to the darkness in Chinatown

It is true that Polanski’s hippie smile is behind the pessimism in the bones, but it does not make people desperate. In the heavy sorrow and regret, people desire beauty and perfection even more.

Therefore, to show the darkness is to call the light

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Extended Reading
  • Ally 2021-10-20 19:02:14

    The first half was too slow. I was sitting on the bed watching it. The opponent said to Jack that people can do anything at the right time and in the right place. Angry but powerless, this is the normal state of the movie and reality. Three years later, when Polanski seduced a 13-year-old girl, he himself became the omnipotent villain, and he also escaped legal sanctions—the critics became the objects of his criticism. It has to be said that Polanski's film changes or predicts his fate, which is very terrifying and mysterious.

  • Calista 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Polanski movies are a bit abusive, but a good movie is a good movie. Nicholson caused Lao Tzu to pay for his life and Dunaway died unexpectedly during his lifetime. The most frightening thing is the innocence of murder in Chinatown.

Chinatown quotes

  • Jake Gittes: May I speak frankly, Mrs. Mulwray.

    Evelyn Mulwray: You may if you can, Mr. Gittes.

  • Noah Cross: Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.

    Jake Gittes: Mainly that you're rich, too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.

    Noah Cross: Of course I'm respectable I'm old! Politicians ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.