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"The Mist"
Cheyanne 2022-03-21 09:01:11
The story told in this movie comes from real events. Like "Jack the Ripper", "Zodiac Killer" is also an unsolved case. But this unsuspecting case is almost no suspense. The suspect just lacks enough evidence to be identified. From the beginning of the murder to the end, the fog clears up, telling us the life of a cartoonist and policeman who pursued the truth. Maybe the killer was that Li, maybe not, or just Li alone. At the end of the movie, the man who was attacked and did not die at the beginning of the movie identified Li, but by accident he suffered a heart attack and died before the interrogation began. In the subtitles at the back of the movie, we learned that this case was still an unsolved case in the end. It was not full of mystery. It mocked the existing judicial system and slammed those who evaded responsibility. The sin will be revealed sooner or later, but sooner or later.
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Extended Reading
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Melvin Belli: Inspector Toschi.
[holds up bloodied shirt piece]
Melvin Belli: It is my belief that this is a window into this man's soul. Killing is his compulsion. Even though he tries to ignore it, it drives him. It's in his blood.
Dave Toschi: Maybe. Or maybe he just likes the attention.
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[Graysmith visits with Ken Narlow in Napa]
Robert Graysmith: Does the name Rick Marshall mean anything to you?
Ken Narlow: [it does] What are you after?
Robert Graysmith: What have you got?
Ken Narlow: Hypothetically, you just named my favorite suspect in the whole case. This is off the record. Couple of years back, I was trying to get Marshall's prints. I handed him a photo. He looks at it. He's about to give it back and he says, "My goodness, I got fingerprints all over this." And he wipes them off.
Robert Graysmith: Why didn't you test him for handwriting?
Ken Narlow: Because when they finally did run his prints... they cleared him against the one in Stine's cab.
Robert Graysmith: So it's not him?
Ken Narlow: Maybe yes, maybe no.
Robert Graysmith: No? What do you mean?
Ken Narlow: Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene. If he had the foresight to bring gloves with him, how the hell's he gonna accidentally leave a print behind?
Robert Graysmith: But it was in the victim's blood.
Ken Narlow: Could have been one of the bystanders, or a cop just reaches out... Boom. False print.
Robert Graysmith: But that print disqualified 2,500 suspects.
Ken Narlow: Which is why we used handwriting.
Robert Graysmith: But not for Rick Marshall.
Ken Narlow: S.F.P.D. saw a handwritten sign in the window of his house, decided it looked nothing like the Z letters, so they moved on.
Robert Graysmith: How do they know Rick Marshall wrote the sign?
Ken Narlow: [smiles] My thoughts exactly. Rick Marshall was a Navy man. He received code training. He was also a projectionist at a silent film theater.
Robert Graysmith: How do I get a copy of Rick Marshall's handwriting?
Ken Narlow: Three ways. One, get a warrant; which you can't. Two, get him to volunteer; which he won't.
Robert Graysmith: Yeah, and three?
Ken Narlow: Get creative.