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Mireya 2022-04-22 07:01:02

This is probably the most mind-bending and longest reasoning film I have ever seen. The film is 2 hours and 40 minutes long. The film year spanned 22 years from 1969 to 1991. During the period, the characters related to the case appeared. No less than dozens, plus the ten cases that happened before and after and the relevant clues that were gradually unearthed is enough to make people dizzy. And these are also the usual characteristics of David Fincher's movies. The gloomy light and the soft voices of several protagonists make people feel depressed and even uncomfortable.

Sort out the cases that happened successively:

On July 4, 1969, which is also the Independence Day of the United States, Dana was shot in a car, but the boy who was with him survived;

On September 27, 1969, on the shore of Lake Ivy, a couple was murdered , boy survived;

a taxi driver was killed with fingerprints and gloves used by Zodiac;

after 2 2/1, a woman with a child claimed to have been kidnapped by Zodiac near Route 132 in Modesto, California;

in these cases In between, the criminal sent a letter to the newspaper in the name of Zodiac, giving proof of the crime and giving a password letter, claiming to be published by the newspaper. After that, there were also calls to the TV station to meet with lawyer Melvin Belli, but no one showed up in the end.

After that, the police locked the suspect on Arthur Leigh Allen, and many behaviors fit the suspect; however, the identification of the handwriting on his left and right hands ruled out the suspicion.

Ten years later, the police officers Toschi, Bill and others who followed the incident also turned to others. The reporter Paul Avery, who was involved in the incident, was also drunk and decadent all day long. Only the newspaper cartoonist Robert Graysmith was following the incident. . For more than ten years, Robert Graysmith has also been like a paranoid madman, seeking help from Toschi who knows the case best, investigating a large number of files that have long been dusted, visiting handwriting experts, prisoners and even strangers who never knew each other. And the family members did not hesitate to appear on TV, but after excluding Rick Mashall, the clues pointed to the former suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, but there was not enough evidence to prove these, and he finally wrote them into a book.

The film has no ending like the real-life Zodiac case, Arthur Leigh Allen, who in 1991 was testified by the boy who survived 1969, was about to prosecute, but died of a heart attack a week before the meeting; in 2002, after finding new DNA evidence in an envelope But it does not meet Allen, and the police still refuse to exclude Allen. San Francisco police stopped investigating the case in 2004, while other locations remain open.

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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.