Because Zodiac is a reality, not a movie.
Zodiac I saw the documentary first, and I just watched it today. When I saw many people coming to the police station and calling it Zodiac, I remembered the documentary I watched. I thought it would not be the serial murder that hasn't been solved so far. At the same time, I have a foreboding that I won't see the murderer come to justice in the movie.
We are disappointed with this movie because we can’t wrestle with the police and the screenwriter based on the experience of watching similar movies and the clues revealed by the plot to see if we are smarter and can we infer the real murderer.
Zodiac disappointed us because we couldn't connect the clues, and we couldn't see the murderer came to a successful conclusion. This is also the reason why the Zodiac case is so utterly unstoppable in real life. From newspaper editors to young policemen to illustrators, one by one has devoted himself to the investigation and detection of clues to the case, because we have the human nature of hoping to see the murderer brought to justice and the case ended successfully.
Zodiac, whether in film or reality, disappoints us because it does not give us such an opportunity. Time has passed, life has disappeared, and the truth is always hidden behind the fog. Zodiac, the murderer, is far smarter than us; reality is far crueler than the movie.
Don't compare Zodiac with "The Seven Deadly Sins", with "L.A. Secret", with Chaos, with Holmes, with Agatha Christie, none. Because movies and books are human imagination, Zodiac is reality. Human imagination is limited, and real life is unlimited.
I want the director to know that he is making reality, not a fictional detective crime film. I therefore take the director’s eyes highly, because I think he, like me, thinks that winning a fictional battle is far less touching than seeing the cruel reality.
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