The film is a standard suspense thriller, with plot twists and brains. The Hollywood gold screenwriter Donald has carefully designed a complex plot, with a lot of foreshadowing and falsehoods set up in the story. It is difficult to tell who is the villain and who is the good citizen. I heard Donald learned it by accident - Chinatown police usually ignore the behavior of Chinese residents there. At the beginning of the film, I still had time to watch how Polanski set up the camera, moved the lens, and lighted, but after half an hour, I couldn't care about it, and I didn't have time to distract myself. Polanski's storytelling method is very personal, calm and gloomy, not showing off skills or sensational, basically relying on lines and actors' performances to promote the development of the plot, but the use of the camera and the sense of rhythm are well grasped, and it is not boring at all. And occasionally, some quirky pianos are used to mobilize the atmosphere. Jack Nicholson, in this film, he created a new character and image. The whole film actually has nothing to do with Chinatown. It reveals the darkness of human nature through a series of cases. This darkness has also promoted the development of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States in the past. The contradiction of human nature is the focus of this film. The future that the capitalists dream of is actually full of the darkness of human nature. "Chinatown" is to explain the attributes of people and society, coexisting and developing in contradictions. Many times people are in the gray area. Black is white, and the private detective played by Jack Nicholson in the movie is equally helpless. The director of "Chinatown" is Roman Polanski, a master of film noir, who controls the suspenseful atmosphere and the light of the picture calmly and has a good sense of immersion in viewing.
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