Chinatown
Will Patton 𓅪

Review by Will Patton 𓅪 Patron

Chinatown 1974

★★★★½

Watched 11 Dec 2024

First things first; fuck Roman Polanski. 

Seperate the art from the artist and given to you is a sublime, intoxicating Neo-Noir thriller. It’s simply stunning—cinematography, score, screenplay, acting, direction; all of them are ticked off in just over 2 hours which really feels like 20 minutes. 

There’s nothing else to say really. It’s an all time great. It’s easy to see why it’s an all time great. The issue I have with the film itself (beyond Polanski—fuck him) is that it makes me want to pick up cigarettes again. Wouldn’t have been half as cool if Jack Nicholson was puffing a Vaporesso Mini, but I digress. 

Classy film.

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