Reading Cinema 1 movie review --- Chinatown
“Chinatown” is directed by Roman Polanski in1974. This is not only a great film, but something more, something I would have thought almost impossible.
The plots work best when they start out seeming impossibly complicated and then end up with watertight logic, and Robert Towne's screenplay for "Chinatown" does that with consummate skill. But the whole movie is a tour de force; it's a period movie, with all the right cars and clothes and props, but we forget that after the first ten minutes. We've become involved in the movie's web of mystery, as we always were with the best private-eye stories, whether written or filmed. We care about these people and want to see what happens to them.
When I first heard this name, I thought that plot would be happened in Chinatown or might be discussed about a Chinese people. But I am wrong; the main plot not happened in Chinatown but overall look and cannot leave it. Because “everywhere is Chinatown”.
The film from the outset setting the suspense, and suspense constantly and the audience want to know "what is happened in Chinatown". And all of the suspense at the end of the film, revealing. Old plutocrats raped his daughter. Daughter gave birth to their daughter, also is his sister; Daughter finally died of police gun; That because of the daughter is born incest and sister returned to the old plutocrats side; Old plutocrats water and control the control the future, although he so killed a lot of people. The end of the film, the story just came to Chinatown. There, the police shot and killed trying to escape Evelyn. Jake looked at Evelyn’s full blood head, whispers "go farther and fare worse." lens slowly pull up, according to the whole Chinatown heavy night.
Also before the ending when Evelyn dead, the film first camera gave a long shot about the long road in Chinatown, the dark color cover that plot, only ambient lighting on the street and we only can heard a long car speakers sound .At that time all the audience knew she dead .And the whole movie is dark color it symbolize film noir-Chinatown. Constantly Chinatown does with metaphor. Chinatown that land, seems to be mysterious, exotic, no law. The Chinese people of all is the face of without expression, and indifferent. But, in fact, not a piece of land is clean, seems to be in the sunshine of the Los Angeles also however is the extension of the Chinatown.
Finally, Jack’s assistant pulled open for him and said to him: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." pointed to the theme of this film, and gave me a deep memory. Even though this is a sad ending, I think this a best way to finish this movie.
