The "haunting TRUMPET SOLOS" are what stay with you !

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2006)

I'm 46, so obviously I have seen "Chinatown" many times over the years. It IS an excellent film, beautifully plotted and paced (a la the "old styles" of 30's film noirs), and the sad storyline is only "highlighted" throughout the movie by the "HAUNTING TRUMPET SOLOS", which I will often "hear" in my mind when recalling this particular film.
As with most good films, the music ebbs and flows throughout the movie with resonances of the trumpet solos, reminding us in places of further trouble to come, or of "romance" amidst all the turmoil between Evelyn Mulray (great-sounding "old money" name) and "Mr. Gittes", the Jack Nicholson character.
I plan to go on for the rest of my life seeing this particular movie over and over again (with breaks, of course, in-between just to allow a little bit of "amnesia" to settle in, and thus finding the story "fresh" again). Again, the music is what really makes this movie memorable for me. Faye Dunaway is a great actress, and much underutilized in the overly-competitive SHOW BIZ ATMOSPHERE. She's older now, but so what ? Talent doesn't age, it only gets better !!