In this suspense thriller focusing around a Psychopath killer, we are thrown into a cat mouse game with the police and media jumping at every little hint or letter. This thriller Directed by David Fincher, is a marathon of a movie that goes through the hunt of Zodiac. The police work for years going from one lead to another, suspect after suspect. The whole time this murderer is sending letters and encrypted messages building his fame and fear. Once the case goes cold, a cartoonist, Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) picks it creating an unhealthy and desperate search for truth. With David Fincher as the pilot of this movie it took many twists and turns all incredible dramatic, intense, and suspenseful. Movie captures your mind during whole time because, your solving the case as well, you see the evidence, make theories. You are the third person detective and you have your own favorite suspect. You see the truth one moment and on to the next big scoop the next.
Fincher creates thrill and suspense through the breakthroughs in the case, during each and every murder, or with every new letter. During the murders, Fincher creates a quit still. He gives the audience just enough to know their will be an attack. He shows the Zodiac acting as a robber or good Samaritan wile in our world we find ourselves yelling at the screen to run, he’s going to kill you, we get angry that they won’t take common sense and run from a murderer, but then we remember it’s a movie and we can’t do a thing. The leading roll mostly in the end but in the beginning as well a little was Robert. He takes a new look at this psycho. A new look, you can see the intense passion. Fincher did an amazing job progressing this character from the Eagle Scout he was to the obsessed truth seeker he becomes. You see the slow transition and it’s like a train wreck in slow motion. Robert loses his family, job, and life outside the case. He must know the truth and the truth comes at a scary cost.
We see Fincher’s poetic style with suspense and mystery in this film. Fincher gives us multi-laying plots with 5 manhunts in one for the same person that rarely mix. He is able to keep on the edge of your seat for 2 hours and 37 minutes, always looking for the next clue towards unveiling the elusive Zodiac. He shows the brutal killings in a vivid realistic way that places you right next to hem with a chill down your back and thought in the back of your head that at any moment that maniac would turn his dark and desolate eyes on you, and you would be the next notch on his belt. You couldn’t help but find yourself walking in the movie and believing you were there and that’s the David Fincher trademark.
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WOW that was an intense movie! I liked how David Fincher added a huge mix of suspects and clues throughout the film, it really added to the mystery and suspense of the film, but through me off a couple of times. I totally agree with the still shots, they helped each murder scene sink in, especially the knifing scene, that was a little extreme. I like the cool high angle deep focus shots of the city every once and a while and the crane shots of the cars going down the city streets. The costumes and props fit the time period perfectly and made it kind of interesting to watch.
On that whole suspects and clues thing you brought up. I couldn't agree more. There were just so many suspects that it was insane. Every time a new suspect came up, i thought to myself, "THIS is the guy", but then the next one came up and i thought the exact same thing. Somehow Fincher managed to convince me each and every time that the new suspect was the one. I'm still amazed at how he did it. Even the very first suspects had me convinced when I knew full well that it couldn't be one of them because it was just too early in the movie for that. Great movie. All I can say.
Ya totally, the suspects really help the movie accelerate until it comes to that screeching halt when Robert finally lays his eyes on Lee. And ya i know, I kept getting led down the wrong paths with all those suspects. I thought it was kind of cool that it was a true story and there was never TRUE closure on the case. It makes you wonder if what was uncovered was actually true and what could have been done about the murders in it had been realized sooner. That guy must have either been really smart or just totally crazy to have gotten away with all that. He kind of has a Jack the Ripper status because he was never caught.
Ya, it's just crazy how he wasnt ever caught. I mean, after all he did, you'd think that they could figure out who did it. He had to have made a mistake somewhere along the line, otherwise it's just unbelievable. But apparently he did manage to not make any mistakes. Either that or he was just so insane that he managed to cover up his mistakes somehow or make them seem like something irrelevant. It's kind of scary that he was never caught, but i think that that fact just adds more to the movie as a whole.
Towards Stephen
Your totally right about the persuasion of every character and how the next one had to be the killer. The only problem i had with this movie and that illusion was the fact that i knew the Zodiac was never captured and therefore knew all suspects weren't the killer. But to honor the film i will admit i found myself tricked out of my knowledge and actually believing that i was wrong and this guy was guilty.
I agree with both of you, the amount of carnage and fear that man caused you would think this case could never be closed. Because having a man like that on the run is just scary. He was such a brutal psychopath and committed so many crimes it seems impossible that he could go that long without making one fatal flaw. Also the whole time i kept having those numerous CSI shows flash through my waking eyes and wondered if a butcher like this could get away with this in our day and age.
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