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It's like jake understood how bad things are, that no one is going to save you. Its a darkness that he only grasped at his time in the force, but now he can see it completely. Its so grotesque and unfair that is transcendental, beautiful.

Forget it Jake it’s Chinatown. Joe Mantell with the great delivery of one of the best lines ever written

Great movie, but that ending made my heart sunk

The masterful end to the best of all the seasons. Although Season Two is close.

I notice a main theme in polanski films: Helplessness. Rosemarys Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist.

This is one of the first movies to give me a reality check of how the world works.

can anyone tell me what happens to the little girl in the sequel? i can only imagine based off this ending

"As little as possible" really sums up the scene in so few words

This is the reason why you should not fight with corruption or illegal system, there will never be justice on this planet , and people know it and they choose the lonely life, seclusion...that s why you should never become a cop . thx polanski and nicholson for opening my eyes about the big free world.

Heart breaking movie. 1974 a great year for films.s This is my favourite. Love Goldsmiths soundtrack.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Great ending line for a great ending for a great film. Jerry Goldsmith's "Chinatown" soundtrack is brilliant.

This is foreshadowed in the scene where Jake follows Evelyn and discovers Katherine; Jake confronts Evelyn in that very car and she momentarily hits her head into the steering wheel and blows the horn as she’s telling Jake who Evelyn is.

Imagine if works like Sword Art Online and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 actually ended on a very bleak note like this movie did, like in SAO’s case, Sugou Noboyuki/Oberon actually getting away with inappropriate misconduct on Asuna and Kirito being stuck in ALO forever with no victory condition to free him and unable to stop Sugou, who would then complete his human mind control program from 80% to 100% and take over Asuna’s dad’s company and be free to have his way with Asuna IRL after doing it in ALO, and in Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s case, the game ending at Chapter 5 with Mio permanently dead (having never having done the Freaky Friday swap with Consul M), Noah actually being executed by Consul N, and then the whole Ouroboros party dead, and since Shania sold out the Lost Numbers’ City to Moebius, Moebius actually successfully using the Annihilator Cannon on The City and destroying it (due to Mio never having warned Ghondor and Monica about Shania’s sell out in this scenario), and taking away all knowledge of Ouroboros with it, and leaving Moebius free to continue its cycle of the Aionios War with nothing stopping it. “Forget Noah; it’s Aionios.”

Read that great book about the making of this movie written by Sam Wasson “the big goodbye”

No movie ending has haunted me like this one

Pretty good ending, although it has one mistake. Too much time elapsed from the horn going off until the girl started screaming...

It;s meant to evoke the JFK assassination.

Polanski actually thought this was a happy ending

The moment one of the cops fired his piece and you suddenly hear a long horn when the car stops actually had me utter "holy shit". Such a great film, kept me on edge and was full of surprises. Also enjoyed Nickelson's role too

whens she asked "how big is it"? 1:46

If only Evelyn had emptied the damn clip.

Its chinatown, its the corner of the city that no one cares about, its just how it is, and its not your problem, its not mine, its no one jake, its chinatown.

一片の希望もない絶望。当初はハッピーエンドになるはずだったシナリオを、自身に降りかかった悲劇によって改変することで昇華した。これぞ作家なのでしょうか、悲しすぎるけれどだからこそ観客の胸を打つのか。そしてそれを受け止めて作品を作ったタランティーノ。人の思いの連鎖に感動しますね

John Huston, like Orson Welles was OK playing the villain in his own film.

One of if not the most beautiful soundtrack in movie history.

The double meaning of the little as possible line 😢 on one hand jake is referring to the culture of policing chinatown and doing as little as possible, whilst provoking Lou’s conscious over whats happened. On the other hand, jake completely disregards his own advice from the beginning of the film when he tells Curly to let sleeping dogs lie in regards to his cheating wife. If jake did as little as possible with the case and let sleeping dogs lie he’d never have suffered such heartache .

terrible ending

75 yard shot with a snubnose 38 revolver in the dark. The single greatest movie pistol kill of the 1970s. Not realistic.

man i still remember the feelings i felt the first time i was this film. i could NOT believe that old sick bastard got away!!! WTF! but good example of how fucking awful modern writing/films are. the emotions from this one scene are so intense......nothing made today (by big studios at least) ever come close. the sick feeling in my gut was just about the same as when I got to the end of Quiet Flows the Don. Just when you think Grigory and Aksinia are FINALLY going to have some peace and time together and she gets shot and killed for literally zero reason. that whole book is an emotional rollercoaster, which funny enough also has an incest moment where Aksinias father rapers her, then her brother kill him. grim. just incase someone reads this, make sure to get the 1996 Carrol & Graff edition. its sadly the only complete translation of the book available in English, which i find insane. the regular copies you find in stores or wherever are literally half the book. I do not understand why the wonderful tome has been edited to shit for English audiences. imagine if they did that to War and Peace! Also, Anthony Briggs editon of W&P is the best. Avoid anything by P&V like the plague. cocaine is a hell of a drug! enough rambling!!

Forget it Marge...

Brilliant movie... And so corruption carries on to this day...

Incredibly unprofessional behavior - even if Evelyn had been in the wrong - for the police to fire wildly at a car with a “hostage”

“As little as possible”

The more you hate yourself, the more this ending will appeal to you.

I always feel like that ending has a way of laying things shockingly bare. Escobar’s reaction to Jake’s line in particular is telling because his anger is so clearly born from the sense of shame he feels about how corrupt and horrible an outcome he has allowed for everyone involved.

Maybe the greatest ending I’ve ever seen

Great execution, shitty message.

this movie is amazing

"When you're facing facing a loaded gun what's the difference"

One of the Best ever ending ever to a movie with unforgettable final words "It's Chinatown!".

That is a great shot... bulls eye lol

For all of Polanski's sins, he still did a fantastic job with this film by being a grim reminder that life can be a cruel mistress.

The real moral of Chinatown is that J.J. Gittes should have killed Noah Cross, showing that sometimes you have to accept a murder sentence to allow more overall justice.

The cut to Lou after the "as little as possible" line is so brilliant. After panning from one character to the next for 45 seconds, it would be easy to just pan again to see Lou's reaction. But the jolt of cutting right to him instead, and his response of frustration and offense to Jake's remark hammers home the point one last time that things can change just that quick.

I'm sure Noah will take good care of the child 😉😚

as little as possible

The most darkness movie ending i have ever seen in a long timw

Bruh said "forget it Jake it's Chinatown, " with a tone like "come on my nigga you already know how they get down over here."

id pwn him and win and take her aprize

Another perfect scene🎉