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

  • Paul Avery: Welcome, please put your stuff down. You're going down five rows and left. You're looking for the Modesto Bee from March. I'm going to stand here and attempt not to vomit.

    [Graysmith turns right]

    Paul Avery: Left.

    Robert Graysmith: Left. What I am looking for?

    Paul Avery: Kathleen Johns. Also, you might want to pull the Chron from - never mind, I'll see to that.

    [pulls out Zodiac letter]

    Paul Avery: Okay, now tell me what facts he gives.

    Robert Graysmith: Woman and her baby abducted.

    Paul Avery: Mm-hmm. Fact.

    Robert Graysmith: The car on fire?

    Paul Avery: Anything else?

    Robert Graysmith: Everything in the letter already appears in the article.

    Paul Avery: Yep. And he's done it before.

    [pulls out a newspaper article]

    Paul Avery: Officer Richard Raditech, shot sitting in a parked car.

    Robert Graysmith: Zodiac claimed he shot someone in their car.

    Paul Avery: Yeah, a couple days after this article came out. Zodiac didn't do it, but he took credit for it anyway, because he's in it for the press. He even stole his symbol.

    Robert Graysmith: What?

    Paul Avery: [winces, realizes he's given out privileged information] Yeah, shit.

    [leans close to Graysmith]

    Paul Avery: If I show you something, you promise not to tell anyone?

    Robert Graysmith: [defensive] Who would I tell?

    Paul Avery: [calming] Okay. Totally solid point. Okay.

    [pulls a clipped out magazine ad featuring a watch labeled "Zodiac"]

    Paul Avery: That's the only time that word and that symbol ever appeared before the letters.

    [scoffs]

    Paul Avery: Guy stole his logo off a watch.

    Paul Avery: How can somebody who's killed 13...

    Paul Avery: He claims he's killed 13 people, but which ones can we actually confirm? There's three in Vallejo, one in Berryessa, the cabby. That's it.

    [bemused at Graysmith's confused reaction]

    Paul Avery: Bobby, you almost look disappointed.

  • Dave Toschi: [bedside phone rings. In a tired attempt to answer the phone, accidentally knocks over a lamp, which shatters]

    [into phone]

    Dave Toschi: Whoever this is, you owe me another lamp.