This week Yasmin and I watch Chinatown (1974) and have a conversation about the film’s infamously elegant screenplay, shocking plot twist, insanely dark ending, and wonderfully sleazy cameo from the film’s director, Roman Polanski, whose own personal corruption intersects with the film’s brutal vision of a corrupted world. What does Chinatown have to say to us now? 

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