Chinatown Essay

Chinatown, an Oscar winner and a must watch movie. Polanski's greatest achievement in which Jack Nicholson leads as a private investigator named J.J Gittes. From the beginning of the movie, we can’t blink an eye so we won’t miss anything; we follow the actors, we care about them and we look forward to see what will happen with them. With the help of Robert Towne, who won many awards from Oscars to Golden Globes and others, the movie became flawless.

Chinatown is a devastating movie about the crisis that happened to LA back in the 30’s. A powerful man can do whatever he likes, Noah Cross (John Huston), the devil of the movie, the one who fathers the child of his own daughter. If we look closely and read between the lines, we can see that Polanski is drawing the whole situation of LA whose drowning into darkness, how powerful man rule the week people, hiding behind the best picture.
The movie highlights on another catastrophe staring Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd), where we see how women were weaker than now, how they used to go through stuff and couldn’t even say a word about it. Her father rapped her when she was fifteen. The girl was at the same time her daughter and her sister; she also had a tragic moment at the end of the movie, when she realizes that her grandfather is also her father, she was also next to
First, it is based on real events that formed the California Water Wars. Besides that, it shows how dishonesty and power ruled the people beneath them, how these people were trying so hard to ignore the American Dream and make its land dry so people won’t get richer. On the other hand, we see love, loyalty and honesty between the ones who believed in America (Gittes and Evelyn) both of them revealed the truth to each other and tried to help each other as much as they can. It also captures the injustice on good people, when Mulwray knew about the plan of the Water he was killed so he won’t stop