the reason why it didn't appeal to you

Palma 2022-04-21 09:01:13

This movie is very good, it fits perfectly with Finch's narrative style,
all kinds of intricate clues and interludes alternate, but it's not confusing.
The only regret is that I'm not sensitive to English names, so I forgot what many people are actually called,
which led to the latter As soon as a person's name appeared, I would ask who the hell it was, and it was very
frustrating. When I decided to watch it all over again, I wrote the person's name and specific functions on paper
, which would help me understand all the plot

. How many alternative elements, I think those who think the film is not wonderful is because this film does not have the arrogant attitude of "Seven Deadly Sins", nor is it as fierce and psychedelic as "Gladiator Club"
Maybe in many people's eyes, this film It is too flat and straightforward, and he tells a baffling killer story.
Only the first few bloody scenes can occasionally arouse the emotions of the audience who are addicted to killing. After that, there is no blood at all. There
are even a few special scenes. Mistaking the cartoonist's wife and the police detective's wife into a suspenseful and dangerous suspicion
all of this led to the audience who wanted to see blood and finally yawned, but I was fascinated like a cartoonist.
I think, the director is indeed This case is told from a very objective point of view, because it is a case with no conclusion so far, so the director has no way to favor any one person, or point out any one person as the murderer, this is the whole case. Irresponsible and distorted records
So the director chose an inexplicable but curious boy scout cartoonist who wanted to know the answer to the murder case like a child solving a mystery and wanted to see the murderer. But until the end, when he walked into the convenience store and looked at the real murderer "Li" in his mind, the director still didn't let him rush over to reveal the "truth" that most people tend to prefer, the cartoonist just decided Looking at "Lei", he could only look at "Lei" with certainty, and silently told himself: "This is the answer, he is the answer you are looking for, let this all end..."

All the murders, letters, passwords, phone calls, witnesses, evidence, dossiers, even handwriting posters and movie copies, testimonies of friends, identified photos, retired handwriting experts and expert apprentices who overthrow the handwriting experts, time Passing...N many things are intertwined, making Zodiac Killer a real mystery that can't be explained.

The film ended in the eyes of the cartoonist, and the "Zodiac Killer" book on the shelf became the only reliable history of this unsolved case. I think Finch must have let out a sigh of relief in the end, because after all, he has successfully photographed this myriad of things, this thing full of all kinds of people's guesses and all kinds of case-solving tendencies, into a relatively True, more faithful to the case itself, more neutral - legend.

That's what I'm saying - a neutral person or thing is always less attractive; but a neutral person or thing is the only law that can provide the truest and most correct help.

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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.