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Chinatown "Chinatown" was a confusing, yet intoxicating film. On a four star scale I would give this movie a rating of a good three-and-a-half, and even close to, but not quite four stars. This was a movie that really kept my attention the entire time, partly because it was so confusing. If I didn’t pay close attention I would have had no clue as to what was going on in the movie. Considering all of the movies that we have watched in class so far, “Chinatown” was by far the best. I looked forward to watching it each day in class, and it kept me on my toes throughout the entire movie. “Chinatown” takes place in the blooming city of Los Angeles in the late 1930’s. Jack Nicholson plays the part of Jake Gittes, who is a former Chinatown police officer, and now a private investigator. He is hired by a woman who claims to be a lady named Evelyn Mulwray, who is the wife of Hollis Mulwray, a controversial man in the water business. We soon find out that this woman who hired Mr. Gittes is an imposter. However, this case turns Jake on to something much bigger. He soon learns of a scandal within the water business of taking the scarce Los Angeles water and pouring it into the valley and then a murder of Hollis Mulwray. Hollis is found lifeless in a L.A. dam, which seems to be a little fishy to Jake. As his investigation becomes more intense and takes more twists and turns, Jake eventually gets to the bottom of things. He finds the real Evelyn Mulwray, who is an extremely mysterious woman. She wants you to believe that she is an innocent party throughout this mystery, yet things just keep coming back to her. We later learn that when she was just 15, Evelyn was raped and impregnated by her father. Her father, Noah Cross, is a former business partner of Hollis, and ends up being the root of all of the evil.
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