The film "Chinatown" begins with an extramarital affair, and generally weaves a big net for the viewer, which is an intertwined web of desire, money, power and so on. The slow pace of the film makes the audience both nervous and shudder under the chain-linking plot. The script of the film is where the film shines. The detective in the bright place, the dead Mr. Morey, the Eve in the dark place, and Noah and his forces in the deeper part make people only see the tip of the iceberg. The solitary and brave detective has an air of personal heroism. In the past, the police in Chinatown joined this chaotic case and finally returned to the dark street scene in Chinatown; Noah, who manipulated everything behind the scenes, was able to bribe all forces, rape all voices, and ignore the last shot. No one can hurt Noah in the slightest; while Morey and Eve in the movie are both victims, the former is the lamb who took out the sin and the latter is the puppet who whipped the body for himself, and the final outcome is death. Thinking through Polanski's lens whether individual anger and resistance can compete with capital and power in the collective unconscious, the answer of this film is obviously impossible. The director cleverly transformed this incompetent anger into a case caused by an extramarital affair, allowing the audience to peep through the sharpness of one-eighth of the iceberg to spy on the seven-eighths of the deep ice below. Listening to the thunder in the subtleties, and dismantling the grand narrative into a chain-linking plot is slightly procrastinated, but there is no superfluous feeling at all. The first question that comes to mind when watching the entire film is why is it called Chinatown? My understanding is as follows. There are great cultural differences between Chinatown and the overall environment in the United States. It is this difference that makes a strong contrast between the inside and outside of Chinatown, and can refer to the ancient Chinese ideal of the Peach Blossom Garden. It is this contrast that, from the perspective of Americans, the culture in Chinatown is unimaginable, unrealistic and full of magic. To compare the influence of capital forces on ordinary people, it is like the manipulation behind capital is silent, and it is also amazing that when people soberly think about jumping out of the trap set by capital, the shuddering feeling may be the Chinatown they imagined.
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