isn't everyone

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2020)

Almost everyone in China who has seen CHINATOWN has at least one question on their mind: why call it CHINATOWN and what does it have to do with it?
It doesn't matter. The story takes place in LA in the 1930s and 1940s. JAKE, a former police officer, experiences extraordinary things in Chinatown, which makes him have unbearable memories, reasons for leaving to become a private detective and a cynical character. At the end of the story, he returns to Chinatown, where JAKE experiences similar pain again. So on the surface of the story it does matter.
As you can imagine, JAKE was as inquisitive, conscientious and compassionate as he is now as a private detective. Try your best to help those in need, but when he was in Chinatown, his supervisor told him, "As little As possible." Because he would not do so, he tried to help some people, but in the end he could not avoid the fact that these people were hurt or died. And the reality still came round and round - the black forces, the powerful forces behind the eradication of the opposition, to protect their own interests, Chinatown is still tang street. JAKE thought there would be a cleaner sky when he left Chinatown, but in the end he was still covered by the cloud over Chinatown. There was no clean place, and he followed the same rules as in Chinatown. Finally, as he watches the woman he wants to protect die in the car, a morbid JAKE hears a cop say, "Forget it, JAKE, it's Chinatown." Perhaps he understood. But where does he go from here? No answer.
Tragic ending
The heroine dies in the car, shot in the eye, IMDB said, a metaphor for Greek mythology, and then presses her head on the steering wheel, making a horn sound, which was seen in a previous SCENE. When the heroine Mrs. Mo leaves her daughter/sister's room, just get in the car, JAKE is also in the car, to ask her the truth, this is Mrs. Mo's head is a little despair on the steering wheel, horn suddenly sounded at this time...
The future
Ask JAKE behind, is also The father of The heroine "you have a lot of money, have no what you can't buy, why did you do it (part of water project, kill people)" The old man a meaningful said "The future of The future" for him, know time is not much, also with my daughter for The child, and killed her husband rob water control of stockpiled The appreciation of land, in order to "future" is all this? Whose future? Is it the future of LA? The movie may not give a clear answer.
Kiding?
JAKE starts off as cynical and funny. His series of jokes gradually become "puns" as the plot deepens, and they have a deep meaning behind them.
The police found JAKE's phone number on the kitchen wall of the fake Mrs. MOE's house and accused him of being involved. "isn't that your phone number?" they asked. JAKE says breezily, "really? I don't remember if it was my number, and I don't call myself very often."
JAKE goes to the office of the deputy director of water. The director says, "after working with someone for a long time, I will know his hobbies, etc., and whether he is a philandel or not." JAKE raises his eyelids and asks, "is Mr. Namo a philandel?" The chief says, "he doesn't even joke about it." JAKE says, "oh, maybe he's serious about it."
One of the most interesting jokes I found was when the fake Mrs. MOE called JAKE in his office, wanting to tell him something, but worried about the number of people waiting, and asked, "Are you alone?" JAKE immediately interjected, "Isn't everyone?"
Yes, Isn't everyone?