Chinatown Story Analysis

The narrator of Chinatown is Mr. Gittes, the protagonist in the movie; since he is one of the main characters it is better that he is the narrator so that the audience can see what happens in the situation rather than outside of it. Voice over narration usually took place when Gittes goes further into his thoughts so he could express them to the audience. The movie does put itself together but at the end when the audience knows all the information and can see the relation of everything. The audience has to pay attention to be able to put one and one together to figure out what is happening in the film. This film mostly goes in order of events but sometimes it didn't because later in the film Gittes would reveal the mystery and relate all the events together. Chinatown is a formalistic film.Chinatown is considered film noir but it is a lot more colorful than other film noir films. The film Chinatown states or implies that this time period was moraly corrupt because of everyone going behind each others back and keeping secrets from each other and trying to cover them up the further along they go in life. It also implies that people didn't feel that they could trust other people around them if they couldn't tell each other something and that they disrespected people they didn't care about. This film shows the darker side to humans and what we are capable of.