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October 1, 2014
Chinatown
It’s rare to have the title of a movie serve as its final word, but here it does and feels right(the ending was rewritten by director Roman Polanski and actor Jack Nicholson the night before it was filmed). The moment Jake and his associates are walking away, the story has ended. One of his associates says to him, for his own sanity sake, “Forget Jake, it’s Chinatown.” It’s unnecessary to the story and indispensable to it all at once. It places the events of the story on a universal scale: this isn’t about some power grab in Los Angeles, it’s about all those things in this universe you can’t control.moviemorlocks.com â Titleology 101
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 1, 2014 8:41 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.