Review of Chinatown (1974) by Jason W — 23 May 2011

Things are not as they seem in "Chinatown." Nicholson plays J.J. Gittes, a private eye hired to shadow a cheating spouse, who just happens to be on the city board voting against a new project.

Turns out the person who hired him was not the man's wife. Jake soon finds himself knee-deep in a struggle for land. When the man in murdered Gittes soon finds himself involved with the mans real wife (Dunaway).

Truths slowly become uncovered about the whole scheme. The end holds a tragic fate for those involved. Polanski deftly crafts a pernicious tale of loss and corporate corruption in a time when abundance was non-existent.

Find your way to "Chinatown" for a inimical, retroactive look of a past that seems anachronistic of the lack of morals today.