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'Forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown:' What The Movie Line Means
Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown, uttered by Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) in the final moments of Roman Polanski's Chinatown, is easily one of the most chilling film moments that audiences have ever witnessed. Its meaning is open to interpretation, but it has something to do with the futility of trying to understand or change a chaotic, even evil world.

That's not environmentalism, that's population control. [I will watch the video later]