> One of the big character moments in CHINATOWN occurs
when Gittes notices
> something wrong with Evelyn's eye. "It's a flaw in
the iris," she says.
> Moments later they are embracing for the first time
in the movie. I think it
> is this imperfection that allows Gittes to "step up"
and become intimate with
> a woman he has idealised as "above him" in many ways
up to this point in the
> story. She has somehow become more real to him, less
than perfect, and thus
> attainable.
> (Of course it is just the tip of the iceberg as far
as illusion-stripping goes
> for these characters.)
> TL
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