As
we go about our daily lives, we make numerous assumptions regarding
people and their relationships. For example, if a man is walking with
someone that could be his daughter, we assume that's the case. If a
woman is in a car with children, we take it for granted that she is
their mother. We might also walk past a couple, thinking about an
arrangement that isn't there and misinterpreting the appearance of
normalcy.
Classic
Movie Trailers - Chinatown (1974)
I
often wonder if "The Jerry Springer Show" is scripted. With
the multitude of crazy, scandalous and hard to believe affairs, I
question the authenticity of it all. Is that stuff really going on?
Is that really his grandmother? Are so many people really that
clueless, about the father of a child?
I
don't want to give the impression of naivety. I'm sure that these
things are a part of life, I just can't say how prominent they are.
If we could see behind the veil of everyone's public face, would we
be shocked at some behavior, or would we be forced to change how we
think? Perhaps if we took every celebrity headline, true or false,
and multiplied them to cover the world population, we might learn the
truth.
Personally,
I'm not one to read the gossip rags. I see them there in the racks by
every checkout line, but I never give them more than a passing
glance. What famous people do and who they do it with, is business I
don't care to know, but avoiding it all is impossible. Maybe shows
like "Jerry", "Maury" and "Judge Judy",
tell us that celebrities are simply a fraction of humanity, lit up in
a spotlight. If everyone was under such scrutiny, imagine what we'd
learn about ourselves.
I'm
the kind of guy that asks only the relevant questions. People tell
you the information they want you to know, so I don't pry any
further. Beyond the facades however, are complications I'd rather
avoid. A detective, on the other hand, lives his life in that sea of
details.
He
finds out about those "kissing cousins". He knows about
every taboo fetish, every secret rendezvous and every closet
skeleton. If it's relevant to his case, he might travel to another
state, just to verify employment and personal history. With enough
years on the job, gathering data from numerous places, I imagine that
there wouldn't be much left to surprise him.
After
encountering every type of obsession, perversion and delinquency, at
some point he has to find something criminal. Danger is a real
possibility, while searching for the truth and when it does rear its
ugly head, there might not be any backup. The wonderful thing about
films like this, is that we get to be a private eye, from the safety
of an armchair.
Unfortunately,
"Chinatown" was a film and not a television series. It
didn't continue to dive into depravity, immorality and everything
in-between. With more time, we might have gained a better
understanding of people. Maybe we could have looked at so-called
normalcy, with the knowledge needed in order to redefine it.
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