“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown” (Film “Chinatown”, Roman Polanski)
The brilliant film “Chinatown” has longstanding entered the lists of the greatest films of the twentieth century. This statement applies, of course, to the lists compiled by the American film critics. It is considered that the film is made in the style of Noir, but, first of all, it felt not Noir but outstanding so-called Hollywood style. At least I feel the author’s handwriting Roman Polanski - Polanski, whom we know from his earlier filmed worldwide famous movies: “Child Rosemary”, “Disgust”... It all is about the Noir genre with its characters, which go “on the verge” and withstand themselves to the “big world” with all its shortcomings.
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It’s all goes around the “long history standing”, “urban riots”, and social “labour warfare”. The authors mind that in that scope it is really logical and from the economic point of view rationale to incline to provide a “common denominators” (Sternlieb, Hughes, 27). Polanski’s point is also all quite specifically: evil is concentrated in the rich, and the rest are their victims – the poor one’s...”Chinatown” though has twisted detective story in the spirit of Hammett, Chandler and other religious authors, beyond the genre of “American detective”. It’s for sure styling, but at the same time quite social film, which highlights some of the historical events, which is eclipsed bright twists and turns of plot and three dimensional characters. Frankly, Polanski defines all quite accurate and does not give the viewer the choice for doubt. The rich ones - the ruling elite of the city, and the judges and the police and prosecutors, law enforcement, the poor ones - deceived and useless farmers, the righty owners of the land, whose land the rich want to take in times of drought and without any suitable
The brilliant film “Chinatown” has longstanding entered the lists of the greatest films of the twentieth century. This statement applies, of course, to the lists compiled by the American film critics. It is considered that the film is made in the style of Noir, but, first of all, it felt not Noir but outstanding so-called Hollywood style. At least I feel the author’s handwriting Roman Polanski - Polanski, whom we know from his earlier filmed worldwide famous movies: “Child Rosemary”, “Disgust”... It all is about the Noir genre with its characters, which go “on the verge” and withstand themselves to the “big world” with all its shortcomings.
The storyline directed by Polanski …show more content…
It’s all goes around the “long history standing”, “urban riots”, and social “labour warfare”. The authors mind that in that scope it is really logical and from the economic point of view rationale to incline to provide a “common denominators” (Sternlieb, Hughes, 27). Polanski’s point is also all quite specifically: evil is concentrated in the rich, and the rest are their victims – the poor one’s...”Chinatown” though has twisted detective story in the spirit of Hammett, Chandler and other religious authors, beyond the genre of “American detective”. It’s for sure styling, but at the same time quite social film, which highlights some of the historical events, which is eclipsed bright twists and turns of plot and three dimensional characters. Frankly, Polanski defines all quite accurate and does not give the viewer the choice for doubt. The rich ones - the ruling elite of the city, and the judges and the police and prosecutors, law enforcement, the poor ones - deceived and useless farmers, the righty owners of the land, whose land the rich want to take in times of drought and without any suitable