Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Seeing Gittes and Escobar walk into the distance amidst the ending credits, it's hard not to see a parallel to the ending of Casablanca. And yet despite this similarity in framing, the tone of the ending to Chinatown feels like a direct antithesis.
It would be comforting to hear the familiar, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" as Gittes and Escobar fade into the distance, but the direction of the story doesn't permit this kind…