“Chinatown”

I actually don’t have a strong opinion about how the Roman Polanski case ought to play out. On the one hand, I’m simply shocked that it’s still being pursued this late after even the victim wants to drop it. On the other hand, drugging a 13-year-old girl in a hot tub is precisely the sort of thing the legal system ought to be hammering very hard. So, I’ll probably not react strongly either way, however it gets resolved.

But I do feel really sorry for what happened to his life at the hands of the Manson Family, and I do really like “Chinatown.”

Obviously people always point to the Raymond Chandler connection, but I never find Chandler quite as dark or cynical as some people think (or as dark and cynical as “Chinatown,” even).