Chinatown
Many aspects of the movie "Chinatown" appealed to me as I have never seen it before and so many different things about it appealed me. Most of all, I loved Faye Dunaway in it, and her character, Evelyn Mulwray. Most of all, I love the sophistication of her character, Evelyn. It might be just the manner and the way women carried themselves in this era of time but nonetheless, I love it. She plays a woman who is, above all, mysterious. She is good at hiding what she needs to and letting a little on what she subconsciously wants others to know. Otherwise she wouldn't have kept meeting up with Jack Nicholson's character, Mr. Giddes. Evelyn is brought into the plot because her husband, Mr. Mulwray was murdered. Jake Giddes (Jack Nicholson's character), a private investigator type suspects that she killed her husband, Hollis Mulwray (pla
In a way, Evelyn Mulwray is both the anti-hero and the tragic hero of the film. She lacks heroic qualities but is actually one of the story's protagonists. The overall tone of the first half of the film makes us associate Faye Dunaway's character as being the culprit. Even though there is no actual proof that makes us think that she did it, Mr. Giddes is almost positive she killed her husband, because he knows what her motive would have been. But as he digs deeper and establishes some sort of a relationship with Evelyn, he learns that she is actually the victim in a way of all the wrongdoing in the film. Her father slept with her, and she had the child that she is so determined to protect. Also, he murdered her husband, Hollis. Although she is thought to be the one to blame because of her inscrutability and attitude, she is actually the mo
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