The killing, the grand, solemn, and delicate killing again and again, is like a certain ritual—the dark side of the soul requires sacrifices; it is also a carnival—a common carnival between the audience and the killer. The pathological enthusiasm hits you, arouses the most secret inner needs that you can't tell, and at the same time forces you to suppress it, wearing the cloak of morality and justice.
Buffalo Bill, Chainsaw Massacre, Dr. Hannibal... People evade fear and want to approach it irresistibly. You stared at them from trembling fingers, out of breath, grabbed him, grabbed him! No, don't put down the butcher knife...We can't watch, we...doomed to escape...
This article will tell about a serial killer and a legend about his movie.
San Francisco-For
forty years, old grandmothers in the San Francisco Bay Area have frightened troublesome children in this way: If they are not obedient, the "Zodiac" will come and take them away. The children looked out the window of the black hole, and the ground fell silent, the wind whizzed through the chimney pipe, and the boiling water in the kettle buzzed... They thought of him, the murderer who claimed to be the "Zodiac".
One night in 1968, he shot a young couple on a couple's path hidden by broad-leaved trees; then during a bad day, he attacked another couple in the open area of Lake Belissa; and unfortunately Los Angeles taxi driver Paul Sting, he was beaten through the back of the head by the Zodiac in his car... He killed Darlene Fallen, he killed Cecilia Seppard... He wrote to "San Francisco Chronicle", describing the details of the murder. He sent weird cipher letters and T-shirts splattered with the victim’s blood to the newspaper. He threatened to attack the school’s school bus... San Francisco was in a panic, and the huge and cumbersome police bureaucracy was here. The mysterious serial killer was exhausted in front of him. The whole case ended up in the end.
Everything is in the past, but the "Zodiac" has always been a shadow that is difficult to retreat, lying between the high-rise buildings in San Francisco. There will be nightmares, there will be life tossing and turning, and eyes open all night, there are always people crying in their dreams, no, be quiet, be quiet, hush...
The devil will never die, and people will not let it go.
Graysmith-
In 1968, Robert Graysmith made a living drawing political cartoons for the San Francisco Chronicle. He should have lived a boring and peaceful life, but the "Zodiac" changed his destiny.
The cipher letter sent by the killer aroused his interest. At first, it was only out of pure curiosity. To understand the mystery, he repeatedly reasoned and studied, but gradually escaped into the nightmare. He was convinced that he had a glimpse of the killer's face. "This murderer is a lunatic, irrational." The same words can be used to describe Graysmith himself.
Robert Graysmith, 64 years old this year, has thin hair, quick thinking, and a bit nervous. "He (Zodiac) almost killed me, he ruined my life." In the past forty years, frantically searching for clues in the Zodiac has become the only content of his life. This is a desperate game. He paid too much. He got his children involved in the case. He ruined his marriage. He became a paranoid with a nervous breakdown.
Nor can it be said that there is no benefit. During the investigation, Gray Smith wrote seven best-selling books on real crimes, as if he was a crime expert. He has a conclusive conclusion on all suspected cases, with sufficient evidence and clear structure. You ask him: "Who is'Jack the Ripper'?" He will tell you: "The murderer is named Montague John Kutt, and his real identity is a lawyer and cricketer. He tortured and killed a man named Mary Kelly. After his prostitute, he jumped into the Thames and died." For Gray Smith, he jumped into the fog and shadow of the unsolved case and couldn't help himself, "I enjoy the feeling of touching the truth."
Has he touched the truth? Do not. He is only entangled in mountains of facts and details. He tries to solve the mystery but gets lost in the real road. His personal website is full of endless debates and rumors. "In order to defend justice and pursue the truth, we should do whatever it takes." Another high-sounding lie, this kind of nonsense is too much, and every lunatic facing a moral dilemma will say so.
The fact is, he fell into a maze without knowing it. "I didn't find myself in jail until I saw the film." The film he said was David Fincher's new work "Zodiac", based on two documentary novels by Gray Smith, in which he recorded himself And everything in the zodiac.
The serial killer Zodiac is definitely a genius crime expert (just like the other lunatics in David Fincher's films). He is smart, proud, imaginative, sensitive to crime, and impeccable. He unscrupulously mocked the police and the mediocre world through phone calls, letters, and emails. He trampled on the city and manipulated everyone in the palm of his hand. In the last letter sent to the San Francisco police, he teased: "I'm waiting for a good movie about me, I'm curious, who will play me." "Good movie"-really interesting .
Now his dream comes true.
David Fincher-
"I remember when I returned home, and then heard that the police had been following our school bus for more than two weeks." This is the twelfth impression of the director of "Zodiac" David Fincher. Palace events. He grew up on the outskirts of San Francisco and had just turned seven when the case occurred. Vinci’s father didn’t like roundabouts and didn’t think much about childhood shadows. He told his son directly: “Well, yes, there is a serial killer who calls himself the Zodiac who has killed four to five people. , It may blow the tires of the school bus you ride every day."
For the young, sensitive and gloomy little Vinci, the Zodiac is an out-and-out "ultimate monster." After growing up, he was keen to show evil images such as "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "Terror Space" and the demons hidden in the subconscious ("Fight Club"). It is hard to say whether he was affected by the events of the Zodiac. But in any case, the world has always been tortured by fears of this kind, and there is always a madman waiting quietly in the dark. This is the twilight of the gods, and we are forced to face eternal dizziness and annoyance.
Arthur Lee Allen-
Arthur Lee Allen died in 1992 at the age of 58 from a heart attack. Whether it's Fincher's movie or Greysmith's book, the murderer is pointed at him in the end.
Allen worked in a hardware store during his lifetime and was confirmed to have pedophilia and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He has since lived in a modified trailer; his former residence was only one place away from the home of the first victim, Dalina Fallin. Block; he once showed off a blood-stained knife to hitchhikers; he is a gun fan, and the house is full of murder-related gadgets; there is a clear mark in the center of his watch, which is related to the zodiac The signs are exactly the same... However, apart from these accumulating clues, there is no strong evidence to convict him.
"He's that person! I knew it by looking at his eyes. But he got the parole verdict triumphantly!" Graysmith said, "We can't do anything with him, and the dead can't speak." The
rigorous thesis for forty years . It was overturned by a test result. The authorities examined the envelope licked by the Zodiac, and the DNA remaining on it was not consistent with Allen's DNA.
Greysmith sighed: "Damn it! After 1978, all the Zodiac letters were kept in a small box in Sacramento. The summer there was 112 degrees Fahrenheit, and the ghost knew who was taking care of them. And Allen It is possible that his friend was asked to help send the letter."
Compared to Gray Smith's confusion and self-destruction, David Fincher was obviously much more intelligent.
The film "Zodiac" continues the fascist norms and precision of "Fight Club", trying to reproduce the real atmosphere of 40 years ago: Graysmith's canned apartment, the drawing board used in 1968, endless interrogations and Arguments, piles of evidence in the police and newspaper offices, dark light in enclosed spaces... Actors must perform strictly in accordance with the requirements, and every move must be absolutely "correct." Jack Gyllenhaal, who plays Graysmith, complained full of grumbling: "A cartoonist is really not a good job."
David Fincher is not an eclectic, he chose to hesitate to be true, so he resolutely gave up dazzling people. The film "Zodiac" has no meaning of grandstanding or creating legends. In fact, it is rarely divorced from real life-very few dramas and fictions, like a TV documentary.
After reading the novel, Fincher suggested that he must talk to Arthur Leigh Allen’s family, “Otherwise I won’t take over the filming of the film.” He did not allow the author to add any subjective guesses and ideas to the script—every one All conclusions must be supported by conclusive evidence officially recognized. He spent hours picking out the T-shirt that Paul Sting was wearing when he was killed, and he repeatedly confirmed the exact location where the blood was splashed in the car.
When inspecting the filming site at Lake Belissa, the local Zodiac expert, Lieutenant Ken Naro, led them to a small peninsula, which was vertically elongated like a finger extending toward the lake. David Fincher knelt down on his hands and knees, yelled a few times, and listened to the echo. Then he looked back at the path of the time and said, "Wrong." He pointed to a peninsula next to him: "The murder It should happen over there." "He's right!" Naro exclaimed.
Finch judged the condition of the boot prints on the spot by measuring the softness and hardness of the ground. He tested the echo and calculated how far it had to travel to attract the attention of the murderer. He investigates the entire space from all angles, thinking like... the Zodiac himself.
The film crew invited Brian Hartnell, the survivor of the murder, to watch the sample. He was stabbed seven times by the Zodiac. After being injured, he crawled on the ground for 510 yards for help. Hartnett’s evaluation of Greysmith’s original work is “not terrible enough”, but he trusts David Fincher, “David wants to find the right feeling. Obviously, he doesn’t want anything that is sensual or not accurate enough. "He is right, what is more terrifying than the natural reality?
The knife fell, drawing a cold parabola. The murder happened like this.
At the beginning, the film perfectly reproduces the murder scene when Sisilia Sephard and Brian Hartnell were murdered, overflowing with blood-cold horror and shining with evil force of brilliance.
The whole film is like a mirror that leads to despair, with tedious clues intersecting each other, wrapped in countless logic and undecided facts. Some people say that "Zodiac" is a "mollusk movie", constantly self-explanation and squeeze, and all energy into a narrow self-troubled shell. It is thinking honestly, torturing itself, trying to open up a cruel utopia of the real world on the screen.
The film is divided into two clues: on one side are two hardworking policemen who are played around by wrong clues; on the other side are the desperate arrests of "San Francisco Chronicle" reporter Paul Avery and political cartoonist Robert Graysmith fierce. With the development of the film, only one thing gradually became clear-there is no possibility of a solution to the case.
At this point, we have to ask ourselves: People are persecuting themselves and going further and further down the narrow road until they hit a dead end. What is this for? Any honest person with schizophrenia will tell you that putting a lot of energy into the mystery is not for a certain goal. What attracts them is the trouble itself, which caters to some hidden and unknown needs. Those who are full of innocent and simple desires, those Graysmiths, his real need is to obtain self-identification in the investigation, which is more important than finding a killer.
As for the truth itself, we eagerly seek it, thinking that we can get close to it infinitely, but in fact we have already deviated and drifted away on the path of fallacy...
"I am waiting for a good movie about me, I am curious , Who will play me."
His crime was finally reproduced perfectly on the screen.
The Zodiac was about thirty years old when he first attacked. It seems that if he is alive, he is now 70 years old. If Gray Smith is wrong, then when you watch the Zodiac in the theater, the real The killer may be sitting next to you.
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