There is no justice.

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2014)

Chinatown is an excellent movie. It earned eleven Academy Award nominations and is still discussed almost with reverence decades after its initial release. Such acclaim gives cause to comment on the person most popularly associated with creating the movie – the director, Roman Polanski. Polanski is a controversial figure. But then, the same can also be said for the character in Chinatown, Noah Cross. In the movie Cross, a sexual deviant and predator, and someone who is obviously troubled and disturbed, goes unpunished. That an injustice has occurred is undeniable. Even the hard-boiled detective in the movie who investigates Cross is shocked. The theme: there is no justice.