Director Roman Polanski blows the whistle on America . . .

Rating: 9/10 (26 November 2013)

. . . in his masterwork movie, CHINATOWN. All of our brave soldiers have died so that government of the rich people, by the rich people, and for the rich people shall not perish, Polanski proves here. As the film's richest character, Noah Cross says, rich people can even surprise themselves when they notice how evil they have become. After knocking up his own daughter in her mid-teens, he's hell-bent in having the local police aid and abet him in his craving to gain carnal knowledge of his daughter\granddaughter, Katherine. When his business partner, Hollis, objects, Noah drowns Hollis in Hollis' own fish pond. Noah has the police cover this up for him, of course.
Noah, as you might have noticed, can do ANYTHING he wants, with the full support of the local police. This is because he is the richest Angelino, and he's about to become at least twice as rich, thanks to his scheme to triple the land area of Los Angeles through his manipulation of the water supply. Though everything that Noah does is unconstitutional, the U.S. Constitution and the Holy Bible get far less of his respect than toilet paper. Polanski also aims to prove that American police are the dumbest segment of the world population. Most of the cops in CHINATOWN are eager to commit any outrage imaginable for fewer pay crumbs off the rich man's table than even the butler is paid. These crime enablers derive their main payment vicariously, because they are bullies at heart and would work as henchmen for Noah and his ilk at no pay at all. They glory in making everyone else grovel at Noah's feet, forced to worship his accumulated mountain of gold.
The self-anointed "good cops" in CHINATOWN's world are the most stupid of all. Private Eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson)'s "back story" is that he tried to be a "good cop" in L.A.'s Chinatown, but got his lover killed. He thinks he can quit the LAPD and outwit the rich. Instead, he gets a new lover killed in Chinatown, and condemns another 15-year-old girl to the hell of incest at the hands of her billionaire grandfather. This TRUE STORY of the origins of Los Angeles, and the moral character of her founding father, raised a few hackles. Noah Cross' heirs ordered President Nixon to have Polanski's family butchered by C.I.A. operatives. They also trumped up bogus charges directly taken from CHINATOWN's Oscar-winning script to prevent Polanski from ever setting foot in America again, effectively silencing this lone voice crying out a warning from our wasteland. Everything is this review is TRUE--you can see most of it documented just by watching CHINATOWN. (If it were NOT true, there would not have been such a conflagration launched against the Polanski family!) Anyone who is brave and has a good heart will understand. As for the rest of you, Nicholson sums it up the best: "YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!"