Can I help you?
No.
When I saw this place for the first time, a Kafka-style climax hit me, just like the end of "At the Door of Dharma", the farmer is about to die, looking at the door that has been in front of him, only to open it for himself. The door closed slowly. And the cartoonist was standing there, he might have come to the last door, but he could only stare at it for a long time, and couldn't catch it.
"Zodiac" is not like ordinary detective movies, which focuses on "who is the murderer"-of course the murderer is very important, he is the motivation is the ultimate answer, but he is also impossible to achieve, you can believe it But what can’t be proven is just like K’s castle-what "Zodiac" wants to show is a complete and true process of investigating the case, how to find clues, follow clues, and enter a dead end, repeated and repeated.
It is the futile pursuit of the three protagonists after more than ten years. This is very implied by the human situation.
At 100 minutes, the detective was very close to the Zodiac, but the ballistic bloodstains and handwriting did not match. People had already made the Zodiac into a movie, and the detective left disappointed.
In the shady scene, several years of history have flowed through pop music and news broadcasts like a marquee. ("Zodiac" constantly emphasizes time, sometimes it is a very fast time such as twelve hours later, and sometimes it is a long period of time, such as the time-lapse shot of the tall building from the bottom up. To emphasize the unchanging pursuit of people in the passage of time.)
Four years later, the detective's partner left, and even the detective himself was transferred to another group because of being framed; the reporter could not bear the panic all day long and moved to the ship, drinking all day long. You will feel that half of your life has been so wasteful, for this terrible mystery that exhausts people. The cartoonist became more and more dazed, quit his job, and his wife returned to her natal home, becoming unshaven, and often receiving calls that only had heavy breathing. Can't help but start to ask what is all this for? The number of people killed in the twelfth house was not as large as the three-month traffic. There were more than two hundred murders after the twelfth house. Why should you be attached to him?
The cartoonist’s wife pressed him, but he couldn’t give a reason and could only say "nobody else will."
He used another set of clues to approach the detective's goal of the year, bringing more evidence, but still unable to prove it.
But he realized what he said. When his wife asked him when he was tall, he said that he just wanted to stand there, look into the eyes of the zodiac, and then determined that that was the person he was looking for. He came to the grocery store and stared at the ordinary-looking person for a long time. He would never be able to confirm that it was him, just like the last boy who pointed to the photo. From 1 to 10, he couldn't give a 10. point. But 8 points is enough. Regarding the human plight, you can ask for a few points.
So, this time, it seems to be a bit positive. The detective could not continue to bear the running, the reporter could not continue to bear the fear, only the marginal cartoonist, received those gasping calls, was frightened once by the film projectionist, but still persistently pursued. In the ending, he alone seemed to be the happy ending.
But he just wrote a book, and he couldn't prove that the man is the zodiac (although it is so coincident, but others can always ask if it is a coincidence), he is not a hero.
This is modernity.
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