Review of Chinatown (1974) by Lucas D — 01 Jan 2013
That ending was profoundly painful....in a way that only an extremely well laid-out, riveting plot could build into, superb actors could impersonate, and a dedicated director could give life to. A hommage to the noir genre, this tale of crime, family, injustice and water is all the more intriguing for it dodges the stereotypes, and twists them to our sustained awe.
We yearn for justice because of its absence, we hate characters because they go unpunished; this is cinema being exciting because it's frustrating, beautiful because it's ugly, satisfying because it leaves us in a place we all know too well, though we wish we didn't, making us understand the film all the more.
Polanski, Towne and Evans conspired to make one of the greatest films of all time, and they might not even have known it.
This review of Chinatown (1974) was written by Lucas D on 01 Jan 2013.
Chinatown has generally received very positive reviews.
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