Chinatown
Movie • 1974 • Crime
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Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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The main character is a private investigator, and the film shows him following people and taking their pictures.
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Our main character shows up to the house of one of his clients who discovered his wife was cheating on him, and the wife has a massive black eye
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Past rape is mentioned.
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The aforementioned geese.
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Some geese are nearly run over with a car, but if any are hit it's not shown on screen.
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Mentions of past incestuous rape.
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A character is shot through the head and their eye is blown out. This is shown when their body is turned over.
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Main character has his nose cut open with a knife. He also starts to get a shave at a barbershop, but the actual shaving is not shown.
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However, a body is pulled out of a reservoir by the neck, resembling a hanging.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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But a nose is cut up.
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Family
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Infidelity is discussed several times in the film.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A woman seems to be held against her will.
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Does a parent die?
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In front of their child, no less.
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there are very loud sudden gunshots at two points during the movie
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Ocean, a lake, a man made reservoir
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Law Enforcement
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Cops are corrupt in this movie
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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It's not a full-blown panic attack, but a character spends most of the film anxious and stutters several times.
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When JJ is in the orange grove there are several moments where he is tightly enclosed by trees.
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It is suggested, but not what happened.
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Does a baby cry?
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Toward the end Curly’s baby is crying as they leave the house
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near the end of the movie there is a girl screaming for at least 5 seconds
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Is there hate speech?
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There are no slurs that I remember, but there are racist comments towards and about Chinese people.
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Brief, when Gittes goes to investigate the senior home.
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Asian people within the movie are either servants or onlookers, and have racist comments made about them
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Are there nude scenes?
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A character reveals another character is both their child and sibling and the result of parental rape.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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One of the saddest for me
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Does a car crash?
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In the orange grove. There's another car accident later, but it is not a crash.
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A man has his nose cut, resulting in a spurt of blood. A woman is shown after being fatally shot through the eye; there is blood all over the car and a hole where her eye should be.
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Does someone drown?
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