From one great Nicholson role to another - connecting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Chinatown through Jack Nicholson.OK - first things first. Let me get the whole Roman Polanski controversy out of the way. Yes, he directed some amazing movies. Yes, he won an Oscar. And yes, he drugged, raped, and sodomized a 13-year-old girl. As far as whether he should go to jail or not, I think the third one kinda trumps the first two by a landslide. Check out this article at Salon.com for a pretty clear-cut look at the situation.
That aside, Chinatown is still a brilliant movie. It starts like your typical film noir from the 1930's with private detective J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Nicholson) being hired to follow a suspected adulterous husband. Things of course get very twisted from there. Mistaken identity, a mysterious girl, land, water, murder, corruption, and a VERY screwed up family all come into play. By the end, there are so many layers to the mystery that it's tough to wrap your head around... but you'll really want to.
Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.
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