Many existential philosophers have taken the trouble to write the myth of Sisyphus. Because Sisyphus was too smart, he was punished by the gods and kept pushing a huge boulder up to the top of the mountain. This kind of ineffective and hopeless labor is more severely punished. This simple myth has been mentioned countless times. It is because it is so similar to our entire life. The story of the Zodiac is a modern thriller version of the myth of Sisyphus. The film is based on real crimes. The Zodiac brutally killed innocent passers-by, and provoked the police by publishing codes in the media, and once became a perverted serial killer that caused a sensation throughout the city. The government has invested a lot of energy, and the entire lengthy process of solving the case lasted for decades. Countless people were involved in it, and ultimately they were unable to prosecute the suspect because of insufficient evidence. The murderer has not yet been identified. Had it not been adapted by David Fincher and put on the screen, this serial murder would have been lost in the dust of the police archives and would never be known again. The film is nearly 3 hours, the whole process is like watching a group of people push the rock hard to the mountain, the audience is holding sweat in their palms, waiting patiently, looking forward to the moment when the rock is pushed to the top of the mountain, our hearts are surging. Secondly, I feel that we are about to get close, and we are about to get close to the answer. In short, we definitely know that justice will be manifested and blood debts will be paid. It’s like all the detective stories we’ve seen, isn’t it? We will see the murderer being sanctioned with our own eyes, and then walk out of the theater contentedly and take a deep breath in the sun, thanking us for having a world that can be controlled. Unfortunately, three hours later, we only saw the rock crashing back to the foot of the mountain. Together with those who were crushed, there were police detectives, reporters, cartoonists, and witnesses who sacrificed all their youth, future, and family happiness for this case. I believe the Zodiac is not an exception. The world is unfair every day. In every corner, people were killed, violated, wronged, and taken away their most precious things. To this end, they exhausted all their energy and blocked everything to seek a just result. But how high is the real crime detection rate? Does it exceed 20%? Most cases have nothing to do with it. Not to mention how many unjust, false and wrongly filed cases will be solved even if they are solved. To no avail. No fruit is the cruelest result. The most sad thing is the incompleteness, that is, the unfinished. If there is no happy result, then, even if it is a tragic result, a tragedy is better than no result. We need to be accounted for, and there is a response to everything we need to pay. . But sorry, none. Because what you cherish and struggle for is too humble in the eyes of fate. No one really cares except you. The whole world is like a stone mountain with no grass, or an ant colony. Everyone is one of the 6 billion ant colonies, and they have their own stones to push. Everyone carries their own inherent loneliness and weight. You manage a relationship carefully and want to be happy with someone and grow old. You work hard, hoping to be appreciated, and you will be promoted. You read a lot of books, eager to write a book, and be admired by others. You even called for a mass movement to bring happiness to thousands of people, and the name goes down in history. You compete with everyone, and the rock you have to push to the top of the mountain must be bigger and more than everyone else. Everything was so beautiful at the beginning. You trot along the mountain road, pushing the stones, and even humming. You look at the stones that have been pushed to the top of the mountain gleaming like monuments, inspiring you. But gradually the pace began to heavier, and his breathing became quicker. In the end, you were so overwhelmed that you had to bear the pain and let the stone roll back to the foot of the mountain. So you go back to the foot of the mountain, comfort yourself, and pick a smaller stone. Time and time again, the ideal has become smaller and smaller. From the eye-catching to a hot pot. Sometimes you will be aggrieved, so why those who own the transporter can easily get something for nothing. Sometimes you think to yourself, I will never believe in damn ideals, or love. Sometimes, you sincerely envy those who are still obsessed with pushing the big stone. They must be very strong and naive. But for various reasons, you cannot be a person like them. Open the resume of your life, there are only unfinished circles full of paper. Therefore, I love this "Zodiac Killer", although some people say it is too long and flat, anticlimactic. I think that's because the story David Fincher wants to tell is not the murderer at all, but the whole life of murder. His purpose is not to show the successful people who carried the stones to the top of the mountain and set off fireworks for them. What he wants us to feel is the weight of the stone itself, the bloated judicial system, and the fickleness and worries of the people. He wants to say that the weight of the stone is not something ordinary people can bear, but he still has to photograph the process of failure. At the end of the film, he played detailed subtitles, telling us how the detectives and others in this case survived and died afterwards. He deeply respects these people. I think what he didn't say was: The definition of hero should be rewritten. Heroes are not winners, but ordinary people who are working hard and failing in the end. It is this failure that he wants to praise. Praise our failed Sisyphus, leaving the world with nothing but light of existence. We are weaker than fireflies, short-lived but more beautiful and charming than those long-lived stones.
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