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A 7 page paper which describes the moral issues presented by these characters in the highly controversial 1974 film. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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characterization, somber story content, cinematography, lighting and editing. Film noir is taking a walk on the dark side of humanity. It leaves the pristine, idealized world behind and
uncomfortably probes the underbelly of society that is hidden by day but surfaces from the shadows by night. By the 1970s, film noir was considered pass?, a genre that
had reached its peak in the black-and-white films of the post-World War II era. But director Roman Polanski revealed that the genre was alive and well in his chilling
ode to film noir, Chinatown (1974). Like all classic film noirs, Chinatown is a mystery that involves a private investigator, J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) and an elusive and
emotionally distant femme fatale, Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway). Nicholas Christopher wrote in his consideration of film noir, "Men veer along a zigzag path with regard to the femme fatale,
from reverence to loathing, in truth reflecting (and projecting) more than anything else their feelings about their own condition, their own entrapment, as the walls seem to close in around
them. While many times serving as the agent of that entrapment, the femme fatale is always its dark mirror" (5). When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities
of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles water engineer, little does he know that he will become ensnared in a web of intrigue that represents the most
shocking of social taboos. After discovering he had been duped by a woman pretending to be Evelyn Mulwray after the real Mrs. Mulwray threatens him with a lawsuit, audiences
become immediately clued in that this will be a complex tale with many twists and turns. All contemporary stories are, in
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