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My two favorite movies of all time are Sunset Boulevard and Chinatown.
The ending to Sunset Boulvard when silent screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) has shot her gigolo Joe Gillis (William Holden) and the police have arrived to arrest her. The Hollywood paparazzi shows up and her lifelong companion and former director realizes she has had a breakdown and she thinks this is her big movie.
Chinatown ending, just after Faye Dunaway shots and wounds John Houston, her father and the father of her child (incest), and then attempts to flee with her daughter and is killed by the police, and Jake (Jack Nicholson) realizes they're in Chinatown where nothing goes right.
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