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Chinatown (1974)
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A detective's confidence in reading personal motives proves inadequate to the arrangement of land, water and authority around him. Roman Polanski makes daylight and apparently legible locations offer little protection. The fictional story draws on Los Angeles histories without reproducing them literally, with sexual abuse and entrenched power making its conclusion exceptionally bleak.
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About Chinatown
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.