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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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Extended Reading
  • Liliane 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Although at the end of "Zodiac", the case still hasn't ended, but the persevering spirit of the people who pursued the case gave us a kind of quiet power. This quality of soul overcoming evil gives the film more than a director. The hope and optimism of David Fincher's films, and this change of calm and objective as the keynote, also made him a masterful character that is not flaunting but intriguing. Contributed me nearly three hours, David Fincher never let me down

  • Daniela 2021-10-20 18:59:52

    There is a kind of movie that always reminds me after watching it, and even feels endless aftertaste. This is it.

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.