People can enjoy life for only 30 years, and most of them are working hard. This kind of hard work gradually fades due to the changes of the years. After the best physiological stage of life, all dust returns to dust. It's just that some people do it for career, some people do it for fun, and some people do it for selfish desires. Therefore, when a person or some people live forever in search and regret, they spend their whole life depressed and die for their unfulfilled wishes. The torn, helpless, dazed, and borderline feelings of collapse that have been entangled in a lifetime control a living human body in this way. This kind of thing, although not everyone may encounter, but who has not experienced the same feeling no matter how long?
The first thing that people fear the most is definitely not to face death and danger, but the most terrible thing is to let one's soul be lost forever in the endless loss brought about by failure. People with such thoughts must have played the protagonist in a tragedy in the past. The bad thing is that this role has no ending, so it has to be played forever. People's psychology is the result that must be pursued, and when you see the ideal ending, you can go to the next thing with peace of mind. The more important things a person faces, the stronger the reaction of the soul. Sad things are not over, it is a festering scar in the heart.
Such people are a minority, a group that is not easy to understand. When such people are under endless pressure, in the eyes of others they are more like a kind of out of control person, more like a standard lunatic in the eyes of others. In fact, these lunatics have indeed changed from dealing with life at the beginning to trying their best to resist their own despair and sadness. The appeal of "Zodiac" is actually that simple. Neither the unsolved case of the famous and notorious Zodiac, nor the mystery of the killer himself, is David Fincher's saga. What is important is what kind of life experiences are experienced by almost all the parties involved in the zodiac, who have brought shocks to human life, society, and civilization.
So, through the images of David Fincher, we see almost everything, except for the true face of the Zodiac. That is to say, the world shown in "Zodiac" and people living in this world are definitely sad and failed. This is failure, covering the confusing world created by the negativity in human nature. Don't think that a killer movie, a director who once filmed "The Seven Deadly Sins", must be the ultimate work that is extremely skilled and must be full of entertainment. Because David Fincher's "Zodiac", which has returned from a long silence, is more accurate, extremely serious, and almost reveals the objective reality of a certain aspect of human nature.
It's still human nature, David Fincher's display of human nature this time is extremely calm and restrained, and the characters who accept these fates interpret the footnotes of failure in such a situation. When a character like in the movie breaks down from the initial smugness to the final disintegration, the viewer can recognize the helplessness and disappointment of being brutally swallowed by the soul. So, when the young reporter, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, gets married and has a family full of children, he is still so obsessed with pursuing the truth of the Zodiac that the family turns their backs on him. The viewer finally understands how well-intentioned the role of David Fincher is. A man gains recognition and confidence from a killer zodiac individual. Although this kind of positive motivation comes with a dark background, the joy of success has allowed him to go down the road of his own liking. People who pursue mysterious cases have one thing in common, that is, they believe that justice can eventually triumph over evil. Of course, if you go on a long road supported by such a sense of justice, you will have to face embarrassingly a life of being questioned, subverted, and denied. Because people can always forget those troubles that entangle themselves, this is out of instinct protection and the gift of time. Therefore, the madness and confusion of such a person with firm belief and firm attitude is a tragedy, and David Fincher, who gave the whole tragedy, objectively reproduces the inevitable and eternal injuries in life for the public.
Movies like Zodiac are inherently dark and helpless, and it's normal to see no sunlight in them. To express this evil that cannot be cracked in civilization, it is necessary to take into account a positive and positive attitude, and the internal power of "Zodiac" is abundant. The Korean films "Memories of Murder" and "That Guy's Voice" are both excellent works that express this theme, but the main theme is to sing about the strength and compassion of human nature, and the sunshine feelings in the film are obviously traceable. Only "The Zodiac" truly soothes and imitates the real situation of human beings facing this kind of pain. This situation has always contained a power of despair. The taste of this power is really a torment that the audience can feel. While David Fincher murders this feeling in a mildly dreary way, the core shock remains the same. Some things, like the victims in the film, wait in unease to be slaughtered. However, in the face of such a dark theme, David Fincher is standing on a high place to show his own thinking. Therefore, "Zodiac" is not so gloomy and sad.
It seems that "Zodiac" does not have the strength to make people think, and some are just a hopeless pursuit process. It is this microscopic display set in the macro and objective that is the charm of the film. David Fincher's unique coolness and noise are mixed with the taste of the world. Therefore, the historical reappearance of American 1960s graffiti makes the film wrapped in a vague sense of time of the past. This kind of long-term theory drives the mood of the film, and the process of reproducing the massacre has also become the key performance of human psychology. It is in this emotion that the philosophical speculations articulated by David Fincher are safely realized. After all, human beings are animals who seek a sense of security and are unwilling to be touched by those past injuries. And David Fincher tells people by touching these pain points. The great thing about human nature is that it can not only fight evil with body and mind, but also overcome evil with soul.
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