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
  • Kaela 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    By coincidence, I saw two masterpieces in 1974 in a row. As the title of Chinatown, it has not become a clue to the movie, and its scenes only appeared at the end of life and burst into climax. The textbook script of the long admiration of the name did not bring much shock. It was nothing more than an orderly questioning. It was the so-called Chinese essence: Sacrificing the individual to make the greater self, and not tolerating American heroes, was thoroughly analyzed. Good film, but not right.

  • D'angelo 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    Four and a half stars. It is said that the script is good, it is really intricate and complicated, and the process is tense and the ending is shocking, but all the previous layers of exposure to the shady government and business were finally diverted by the incest tragedy. Is it a failure? Nicholson played normally, and Fei Dunaway's performance was even more attractive, with the same ending as "The Male and Female Thief", but the temperament changed from sturdy and easy to tense and fragile.

Chinatown quotes

  • Jake Gittes: Hello, Claude. Where'd you get the midget?

  • Lt. Escobar: You must really think I'm stupid, don't you, Gittes.

    Jake Gittes: I don't think about it that much, but gimme a day or two and I'll get back to yuh. Now I'd like to go home.

    Lt. Escobar: I want the other pictures, Gittes.

    Jake Gittes: What pictures?

    Lt. Escobar: THIS broad hired you, not Evelyn Mulwray.

    Jake Gittes: Yeah?

    Lt. Escobar: Yeah. Somebody wanted to shake Mulwray down; she hired you. That's how come you found out he was murdered.

    Jake Gittes: I heard it was an accident.

    Lt. Escobar: C'mon, Gittes. The hell d'you think you're dealing with? A bunch of assholes? Mulwray had salt water in his lungs. You were following him day and night; you SAW who killed him. You even took pictures of it. It was Evelyn Mulwray, and she's been payin' you off like a slot machine ever since.

    Jake Gittes: You accusin' me of extortion?

    Lt. Escobar: Absolutely!

    Jake Gittes: I don't think I need a day or two; you're dumber than you think I think y'are.