Tired, but keep watching

Garth 2022-04-22 07:01:02

The first time I watched "Zodiac", it was the CD I bought. I don't remember whether it was edited or not. I only remember that the rhythm was slow and the picture was dark. I couldn't understand the key, and I didn't know who Robert Downey Jr. Can't blame me for this, it seems that the reporter who later replaced Robert Downey Jr. is the protagonist on the disc, so it confused me.

Later, the memory of "Zodiac" disappeared completely, and I downloaded a version called the director's cut. It took more than two hours and forty minutes. Although it was still slow and the picture was dark, I watched it from beginning to end, except for the riverside of course. The shot of that case, that shot I will never forget, it was too uncomfortable to watch.

I think a good movie needs to be watched several times. It's like "Fight Club", I can't remember how many times I've watched it, I can remember almost all the lines, and I even have a printed version. "The Zodiac" still feels similar to "The Seven Deadly Sins", and I've only seen these few Finch movies. The rhythm is neither too fast nor too slow, the details will not be less for you, and you will be mentally blocked when you watch it, but if you don’t finish it or skip it, it will only add to the blockage.

The character
starts by talking about the reporter who draws the comics. I still don't understand why he is so interested in Zodiac. He does things that the police have not done, such as going to the library to read books. This guy doesn't know how many books he has read, and he even translated the password given by Zodiac. Write a book, and even walk the road from the suspect to the victim's house in person, telling the police that it is 50 yards. He said he just wanted to see Zodiac with his own eyes and make sure it was him. He fled from the old man's house with a basement with a poster, and then looked at Li in Li's shop for a while, no one knew whether he got the feeling he wanted, and he felt that the person in front of him was Zodiac.

And then there's David, the cop. I fell in love with this character from the time he told his partner, "Today is your birthday, I'll come with the corpse." It's not that he is incompetent, just because the case has crossed many places, too many details and clues have been ignored or covered up, and time is the biggest obstacle, so when Li was initially denied, he was completely desperate.
Zodiac has even been made into a movie when he stumbles across that reporter in the cinema a long time later, how ironic. Later, he was moved by the reporter's perseverance and told him time and time again, I can't do anything, and I can't tell you who to go to, and let my former partner help him. Unfortunately, he wrote a letter impersonating Zodiac, and was kicked out of the major crime unit. When the reporter went to look for him in the heavy rain, he was already disheartened. This Zodiac is really too ho-ho. However, when the reporter called out Li's name, he was still excited at that moment. really good.

The process
film is a suspense film at the beginning, but after watching it, it is more like a drama film. Years have passed, and journalists have long been married to women they date for the first time. Zodiac has never caught, the people involved, their lives are messed up, and even though they want to escape or have escaped, they still feel awkward. I feel that they must have said in their hearts more than N times: I cao you lunatic who are you. And the reason they gave up was that more people died in car crashes in three months than Zodiac said he killed, and that was just an old-fashioned case. For the reporter, even though he was numb to the heavy-gasp threatening calls, he was the one who most desperately wanted to find Zodiac.

Later in the film it appears that Lee is Zodiac, but the more it is said that he is, the more likely he is not, and there is a good chance that Zodiac is more than one person at all. Or maybe he is, but he doesn't really want to.

There is still a bit of laughter in the film, anyway, when I saw a lot of men and women mysteriously say that he and she are Zodiac, I squirted. I don't know if that paragraph was used by Finch to comfort the hearts of the horrified and depressed audience.

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Extended Reading

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.