輔大電影社 Fju Movie Club: 【2011 十月影展：偵探影展】閉幕片《唐人街》Chinatown

<唐人街> Chinatown

1974/美/羅曼波蘭司基/130min/color

三零年代，一名私家偵探偵辦外遇案件，不料卻由此涉入一宗複雜的財閥陰謀與亂倫慘劇中。本片可說是歷年電影當中的里程碑，導演將本片塑造成懸疑偵探片的當代經典。電影傳奇演員約翰休斯頓參與演出，並獲奧斯卡最佳原著劇本，唐人街可說是以大師級的手法，將詭譎的故事情節編織成永恆的電影極致。

A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted color cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley