Chinatown has long been considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. Robert Towne has yet to create anything better or at least equal to this masterpiece. It’s a gritty noir with a tough-yet-flawed detective who has to dig his way around murder, lies, real estate ventures, and incest. The elements are so deeply-layered and inter-woven that it took me several viewings to finally piece all of its brilliance together.