“Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you couldn’t already afford?”
One of the great things about detective stories/procedurals is how, when they’re done right, they shine a light on the most grave injustices that pervade the world. True to form, Chinatown is about greed, a violent, but dispassionate and almost inhuman greed, about the people who have become so far removed from having to empathize with anyone or feel any…