Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown was the first movie that exposed me to incest(Oh my, did I spoil it for you? There's more to it than that , believe you me!). I watched this in the Betamax format when I was about ten years old and I just couldn't fathom that because I am blessed to have a father who protects. The ending gave me the chills and I could not stop crying. I was morose. Robert Towne , the screenwriter, earned a lot of accolades because of this movie. He is doubly blessed because when he wrote the script, he had Jack Nicholson in mind and his wish came true. I thought I was not going to watch this again, but my folks were watching this the whole time I was multitasking. Oh shucks. Every scene was quite interesting. I just don't get Jake Gittes' pose exposing his armpit after making love with Evelyn . Was there a message that the director, Roman Polanski , was trying to convey? If so, I am clueless. John Huston ...