All About Visions

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2003)

Roman Polanski is an admirer of this dark `detective' writers,Dashiel Hammet and Chandler Jakes Gittes is part of this `solitary souls' detectives Noah Cross(what a name!) is a lot more interesting character than the old man from RB. JOHN HUSTON did a terrific job as this wicked charismatic `VISIONARY', CHINATOWN is all about `visions':distorted visions,visions from a camera lens, from binoculars,bi focals(Noah Cross,at the end,tells Jake that he wants his `spectacles' back -this is a evidence of Cross's murder of Mulwray-) and more important it's about EVELYN'S EYES:in one scene Jake notice that in her `left eye' she has a black speck in the green part of her eye,'It's a fl-flaw in the iris',she confesses(later she is shot in the same eye!) Chinatown= chinese eyessome funny remarks here Also one of the protagonist in the film is the bright sun of California who `blinds the eyes'

I don't like the late Pauline Kael(well,she didn't appreciate the filmmakers I love,and she didn't enjoyed RB)but she said something interesting about Chinatown: `Polanski didn't see why he shouldn't end it with the dead of the heroine and a triumph of the father,who had rape the land,raped his daughter,and would proceed to corrupt the child he'd had by her'.