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   What happened in Chinatown?

   • In Chinatown, the water department, under the influence of Cross, is behind a plan to secretly dump water from a vital reservoir in the San Fernando valley at night during a drought, so that the local agricultural land becomes unusable, and is devalued – allowing the department and Cross to buy it off cheaply from those forced out.

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   How does Chinatown start?

   • Chinatown begins with a quintessential film noir set-up. In 1930s Los Angeles, private detective JJ Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a woman who goes by the name of Evelyn Mulwray to prove her husband's infidelity.

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   Is Chinatown a tragedy?

   • Chinatown is a tragedy at heart and explores themes of corruption, futility, and the darkness of human nature. One of the movies that helped launch Jack Nicholson's career, 1974's Chinatown has a stunningly dark ending that still has the power to shock.

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   Why is Chinatown a whodunit?

   • "Chinatown" is the sort of whodunit where learning the identity of the murderer still isn't satisfying, because justice is never served — and in fact, the discovery only leads to more bloodshed. When Jake finally confronts Cross, Evelyn tries to flee to Mexico with Katherine, and Jake can only look on helplessly as the LAPD gun Evelyn down.

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   Why is Chinatown a bleak ending?

   • Keeping in tradition with the American New Wave movement, Chinatown's bleak ending is a broad statement about the futility of fighting corrupt institutions, and it reflected the political landscape of the 1970s. Despite being set in the 1930s, the ending of Chinatown was about modern issues.

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   Why did Jake kill a woman in 'forget it's Chinatown'?

   • Over the course of his investigation in the film, Jake again tries to protect a woman, and once again, she is killed as a direct result of his intervention."Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown" is an encouragement to Jake to forget this set of circumstances, just as he "forgot" the circumstances surrounding his time in Chinatown.

   What is the meaning of the line at the end of Chinatown?

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   May 3, 2021 · "Chinatown" is the sort of whodunit where learning the identity of the murderer still isn't satisfying, because justice is never served — and in fact, the discovery...

4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleChinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired the ...

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Chinatown begins with a quintessential film noir set-up. In 1930s Los Angeles, private detective JJ Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a woman who goes by the name of Evelyn Mulwray to prove her...

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   Jan 20, 2023 · The ending of Chinatown sees Jake Gittes piecing together the web of conspiracy weaved by Noah Cross (John Huston). Jake discovers it was Cross who murdered Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling) and was also responsible for the death of Ida Sessions.

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6. movies.stackexchange.com › questions › 1546What is the meaning of the line at the end of Chinatown?

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   Sep 30, 2012 · At the end of the amazing film Chinatown, Jake Gittes is told, 'Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown'. What are supposed to deduce from this? Is it that Jake is powerless to prevent or challenge what had just occurred?

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   Sep 26, 2020 · The 1974 Jack Nicholson vehicle Chinatown is one of the great sun-bleached neo-noirs, but did you ever wonder what inspired the seventies classic? Roman Polanski's bleak, brutal Chinatown is infamous for its grim, hopeless coda.

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   Mar 7, 2022 · A desperate woman with a child she loves, who has been longing for freedom from her abuser's clutches, is killed. A wealthy man of power gets to continue pillaging the world for his profit and is...

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   Key Facts. Chinatown Plot Overview. Jake Gittes, a former cop who now specializes in divorce investigations, meets a woman pretending to be the wife of Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Water and Power Company.