i didn't like chinatown.
its mystery doesn't compell me and the characters even less.
i geuss jack nicholson is pretty good and the rest of the cast to but i really didn't care.
i think its cool what it is trying to say, its a good idea on paper but in execution its poorly done.
Chinatown
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
Rating
2.0 (1)
Release Date
6/20/1974Runtime
130 minsOverview
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$6,000,000Revenue
$30,000,000Homepage
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A masterwork of mounting dread where nothing is as it seems and every answer leads to darker questions. Watching it is like descending into a moral abyss where even truth offers no comfort.
Mood
ParanoidBleakTenseWistful
Themes
CorruptionBetrayalObsessionPowerIdentity
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrastPainterly
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Sexual violenceChild endangerment
Jack Nicholson
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston
Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
John Hillerman
Russ Yelburton
Diane Ladd
Ida Sessions
Roman Polanski
Man with Knife
Roy Jenson
Claude Mulvihill
Richard Bakalyan
Detective Loach
James Hong
Evelyn's Butler
Bruce Glover
Duffy
Joe Mantell
Lawrence Walsh
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