Koko
and I checked out the movie Chinatown. Yeah. Took me long enough,
huh? It only came out in 1974. It is directed by Roman Polanski and
stars Jack Nicholson as a private investigator named Jake Gittes.
This movie is incredible and I am mad that it took me this long to
see it. This is one of those mysteries where I thought I figured it
all out about three times before the ending and was wrong each damned
time.
Gittes
is hired by a lady to follow her husband Hollis Mulwray that she
suspects of cheating. He does a good job of it and one of the photos
even makes the front page of the paper. All is well with him world
until the real wife Evelyn Mulwray played by Faye Dunaway shows up!
She tells him that she is going to sue him. Gittes realizes that he
was set up by someone and begins investigating why when Hollis is
found dead.
Shit
starts to get deeper after Gittes is shot at and threatened by two
thugs. They tell him to keep his nose out of their business and flick
a knife up his nose cutting him. He meets up with Evelyn and starts
to think that she had something to do with her husbands murder. The
first lady that pretended to be Evelyn calls Gittes and tells him
that she didn't know that murder would be involved but that he needs
to check the obituaries. He does and realizes that a lot of land is
being bought using old folks and recently dead names.
This
story starts to go places that I did not think they would. I'm
talking about seriously honked up things happen that make you
question the guilt and innocence of most of the people involved. This
was probably the best crime/detective movie I've ever seen. I was
impressed with all of the performances, the music, and the wardrobes.
It was cool seeing L.A in the 70's that was supposed to be the 30's.
This movie needs to be shown to anyone that plans on using plot
twists and writers as well. This made me embarrassed to say I've
written crime stories.
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