China town

The story is being told in the perspective of the detective, Mr. Getties. The narration is not a voice over and more of the first person perspective. Usually the narrator is the protagonist in the story, but in this story Mr. getties was on the edge/viewed as the antagonist. spectators allow suspense to the story as well as the feeling or way the main character is percieved throughout the story. Many times throughout the story we use information from our daily lives and from pictures shown to us in the movie, which imply ideas and thoughts. When Mr. Getties was telling the China town joke, the time period implied that china town was a lawless region, where social norms are no longer intact. Time is used throughout China town as a way to allow certain pieces of the mystery to come together, such as the dumping of water and the death of the chief enigineer. China town uses chronological order for events and fills in the narrative gaps using clues that are discovered during the movie. Definitely china town is the beginning of mystery films which are common today. China town shows the struggle between societies problem of knowledge can be dangerous as well as the boundaries of lawless zones and police conflicts. This story shows that sometimes humans desire to forget horrific events by simply walking away from them inorder to be free of the images.