Chinatown: My personal favorite

Taking place in the 1930's, around the time of the historical water and land disputes in Los Angeles, Chinatown is a movie about a private investigator named Jake Gittes who is hired to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer for the local water company. A women who claims to be Hollis' wife hires Gittes, but when Hollis' body is found dead in a near by reservoir Gittes becomes suspicious. Once the real Mrs. Mulwray comes forward Gittes makes it his goal to find out who killed Hollis and how the women who posed as Mrs. Mulwray is involved. As Gittes gets closer and closer to finding Mr. Mulwray's killer he digs up a lot of the past which continually makes the investigation more complicated. Like other film noirs, money is the motivator, the femme fatale (Mrs. Mulwray) is the trouble maker and corruption is the name of the game, but the only difference in Chinatown is the fact that it was made in the 1970's.

Not surprisingly this movie was one of my favorites out of all the noir movies we watched. Reason being this movie is in technicolor and made in way that reflects the movies of todays time period more then the period of film noir (1941-1958), even though it is supposed to take place during the 30's. I felt like this movie was definitely less linear then the other films thus making it less predictable. I will not spoil the ending, but the fact that the movie ends without the investigation being resolved makes Chinatown more realistic then the other four film noirs.