What Happens In Chinatown’s Ending?

Intypical film noir style, Ida Sessions was hired by Cross to pose as Evelyn to discredit Mulwray.

What Does Chinatown’s Final Line Mean?

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Noir films had always been dark and moody, butChinatownpushed those principles to new heights while remaining symbolic.

Despite being set in the 1930s, the ending ofChinatownwas about modern issues.

OnRotten Tomatoes, it holds a 98% “fresh” critics score and a 93% audience rating.

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It’s those movies that really bother me."

It’s more of a warning about we shouldn’t let corruption get to the point it has.

so you can combat it, you have to face realism first.

Here’s Johnny

Chinatown is a 1974 neo-noir film featuring Jack Nicholson as private investigator Jake Gittes. Tasked with investigating an alleged extramarital affair in pre-World War II Southern California, Gittes is drawn into a complex web of duplicity, unraveling a series of intertwined personal and political scandals.

Also, in many situations you need more than one man to change things."

John Huston as Noah Cross sitting at a table in Chinatown

Jack Nicholoson in various roles

Faye Dunaway as Evelyn looking stoic in Chinatown

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Jack Nicholson as Jake being taken away at the end of Chinatown

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Jack Nicholson as Jake sitting at a restaurant in Chinatown

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Jack Nicholson as Jake with bandages over his nose in Chinatown

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