Chinatown by Richard Polanski is a mystery/investigatory film about a man named J.J. Gittes(Jack Nicholson) who is hired to spy on Hollis Mulwray, a man in charge of the city water. His wife thinks he is cheating on her. Mr. Mulwray is found dead and would mean Gittes investigation is over but he continues to try and figure out the case. Throughout the movie, I kept wondering what the title had to do with the film. There were few and small hints to it but you never get a full grasp of it until the end. The ending leads the viewer and J.J. to Chinatown where Gittes is supposed to meet Evelyn, Hollis' wife. When Gittes gets to Chinatown he finds Noah Cross, Evelyn's father who he belives killed Hollis. Cross asks Evelyn for custody of their child (father-daughter relationship). Evelyn says no, shoots him and drives off in her car until a policeman snipes her in the head and she dies. A famous quote at the end is "Foget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." That is when I understood the ending a knew that Chinatown was a place where stuff like that happens. Nothing good happens in Chinatown. Gittes has been there and has lived through two deaths. It ties in the story and the title and brings the film to an end.
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