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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Extended Reading

Zodiac quotes

  • Robert Graysmith: Did he say they got a print?

    Paul Avery: A partial.

    Robert Graysmith: Whoa. Dude, he wears his gun like Bullitt.

    Paul Avery: No, McQueen got that... from Toschi.

    Robert Graysmith: Does he think that Zodiac's gonna send another code? 'Cause I think Zodiac's gonna send another code.

    Paul Avery: Jesus Harold Christ on rubber crutches, Bobby, what are you doing? You're doing that thing. The thing that we discussed, the thing that I don't like, starts with an L...

    Robert Graysmith: Oh, looming.

    Paul Avery: Yeah.

  • Paul Avery: So... what's new?

    Robert Graysmith: I've been thinking. Somebody should write a book.

    Paul Avery: Somebody should write a fucking book, that's for sure.

    [beat]

    Paul Avery: About what?

    Robert Graysmith: About Zodiac.

    Paul Avery: That's not new.

    Robert Graysmith: I've been thinking that if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose. And I was thinking you know the case best.

    Paul Avery: Yeah, that's true.

    Robert Graysmith: And you know all the players and you have all the files.

    Paul Avery: Lost them.

    Robert Graysmith: You lost them?

    Paul Avery: Or I tossed them. I don't know. I moved onto a boat. You know we work in the daily business, right? As in, today? What do you think we were doing back then? Do you know more people die in the East Bay commute every three months than that idiot ever killed? He offed a few citizens, he wrote a few letters and then he faded into a footnote.

    [beat, menacingly]

    Paul Avery: Not that I haven't been sitting here idly waiting for you to drop by and reinvigorate my sense of purpose. It was four years ago. Let it fucking go.

    Robert Graysmith: You're wrong. It was important.

    Paul Avery: [sighs] Then what did you ever do about it... if it was so important? What did you do? You *hovered* over my desk, you stole from wastebaskets. AM I BEING UNKIND? Oh, that's right. I forgot. You went to the library.

    [smiles darkly]

    Robert Graysmith: I'm sorry I bothered you.