I wrote it all for myself
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too long!
Deanna 2022-04-20 09:01:09
It took a long time to watch this movie, and I thought it was too scary at first, but the wife was too long! ! ! The plot is not bloody, but it is a serious case. The four so-called male protagonists are lackluster, and the three stars are lacking in shining points. In addition, I don't think the real murderer is pointed at the end. The reason is very simple. For fans, such serial killers must be high IQ, but relatively withdrawn people, and the victims have excessive killings, which should be influenced by past experiences. The film only emphasizes the coincidence of the timeline and some speculations. I believe the book There is no description of the data. And the suspect's home shown in the film fits the profile at a glance. Just imagine, after a serial killer kills people, he carefully writes cipher letters at home. How could it be in such a messy environment? Not to mention that the IQ of this man is really not high enough in my opinion. It is a pity that the issuance of certificates was backward, there was no strong information base, and there was no monitoring. More importantly, the incompleteness of the evidence chain led to the possibility of missing or contaminated sites and evidence, so it became more difficult to solve the case. A similar case is Jack the Ripper, but in my opinion, Jack is more sophisticated, has a personal identity, and is more typical of a serial killer. So I always thought that Jack the Ripper could only stop killing because of his personal health (death) or imprisonment. No madman will automatically stop this kind of pleasure-inducing behavior.
I wrote it all for myself
I wrote it all for myself
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.