non-story about people

Johnathan 2022-04-20 09:01:09

I flipped through the previous journal, and when I saw Salander's one, I couldn't help but open it and read it again. In fact, for me, Zodiac is a combination of Wolf of Wall Street and Larson's Millennium series, and the drama and authenticity are combined without gaps.

As an audience, you should know how to tolerate it. A story that is not tedious and poorly logical is not a good story. This nearly three-hour film gave me the first time in awe of the sincerity of David Fincher's storytelling. Murder cases, clues, the day and night efforts of those chasing clues, more homicides, more clues, losing clues, locating suspects, excluding suspects, the case became famous, gradually forgotten by people, the people chasing clues changed, Exit one by one. Only one cartoonist can't give up his obsession with the case. A very real story, very real depicting those people and the world. No distortion, no exaggeration. Robert is like Jordan, Z and WWS are both based on non-fiction novels, 100% logic is not real life. What I love about these two films is that they are true stories of two very real people. Most of the time, it's actually like this. You have a feeling for an idea, you stick to it, and then it slowly expands and starts to bite into your life. You have no choice but to sink deep in this paranoia. It doesn't matter whether it is good or bad, only stubbornness towards that idea is meaningful.

A movie with such a character might be interesting, but a movie about such a character is inevitably lengthy and repetitive. This process of overlapping and reciprocating slow push actually leads the audience to feel the helplessness brought about by that kind of persistence and persistence. Psychological habit, the viewing time is less than two hours, the visual climax lasts for more than an hour, and the plot development may be less than half an hour. It has nothing to do with me wasting time" complaint. What I want to say is, please put away shameless criticism and impatient complaints, and feel the real world of another individual that is rarely felt.

Robert was a Pulitzer Prize candidate in the last few years of his career as a cartoonist. How much courage and conviction does it take to give up the honor at hand and risk his life to fight a battle that everyone believes has no end and really has no end? After Zodiac, Robert also wrote several obscure non-fiction crime novels, and the scolding was endless, all of which were those bullshit readers who viewed a "layman" struggling to describe the investigation process with the eyes of literary criticism. Zodiac is not a novel or a movie, but more like a biography of a person who describes the process of investigating a mystery. Like WWS, it's not about one! piece! thing! It's about one! indivual! people!

Larson was acclaimed all over the world because he was a journalist and his career-driven novels were stories. The crux of the matter is that his story is not about looking good, but about his reflections and accusations of social problems. Neither Robert nor Jordan is a reporter, and they can't tell from the sidelines of the story. They can only record. All the hyperbole and drama are their need to express the id and have nothing to do with literature. So, instead of demanding them by literary or cinematic standards, I offer them my deepest understanding and respect.

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Zodiac quotes

  • 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.

  • [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.