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Title: A real film noir gem
Review: This film sums up what film noir is all about. Style and form takes your eye and misleads you into thinking you know what's going on. Nicholson's Gittes character is fantastic - sure he plays the tough hard boiled PI but when it boils down to it - he is caught in a game far far greater than he can understand and the reality of the stakes involved only dawn on him at the very end. John Huston gives a lesson in how to be evil - that is you never show it on the surface. And Polanski's direction is as good as anyone in the history of cinema - his composition, his attention to detail and knowledge of how each character would play out the story.this is what great cinema is all about
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