Outside Reading #9

For this outside reading I decided to write about the last movie I watched. The movie was Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson. It was filmed in 1974, and was directed by Roman Polanski. The film takes place in Los Angeles during the 1930s, and is about a Private Detective named J.J. Gittes who is hired by a woman claiming to be Mrs. Mulray to investigate Hollis Mulray. When it turns out she was not actually Mrs. Mulray Gittes investigates. He ends up uncovering a wild and scandolous mystery that includes the real Mrs. Mulray, a girl named Katherine, the now deceased Mr. Mulray, Mrs. Mulray's father, and a group of elderly women. I especially enjoyed how they kept bringing up Gittes' history of working for the police back in Chinatown more and more as the movie went on. In this way you uncover more and more about the mysterious past of J.J. Gittes. Of course all of this hinting at Gittes' past in Chinatown leads up to the brilliant climax that is the first and only scene to actually take place in Chinatown.