Feb 11 2010
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Zodiac
Liked Original but Like This Even More – carol irvin – United States
Perhaps it is because I like stories about people who are obsessed. Then there’s the fact that the person who is obsessed is one of my favorite younger actors, Jake Gyllenhall. He plays a cartoonist with a San Francisco newspaper who wants to find the serial killer, the Zodiac. Everyone else involved in it gives up as the Zodiac has a way of disappearing. Although the Zodiac’s killings are especially gruesome, the movie is really not about the murders as it is about the obsession to uncover him. I think there is something especially galling about a serial murderer who just dies a regular death and is never brought to justice. The suspect the cartoonist focuses upon goes exactly down that road. Yet it is not at all certain that he was the Zodiac. All that’s known is that he has been gone for a long, long time and is probably dead since his murders started forty years ago. The supporting cast is stellar too, Mark Ruffalo as the cop, Robert Downey Jr. as a reporter and host of others. It’s in one and the same moment an absolutely chilling case yet also a world class frustrating case. Just about everyone who was professionally involved in this case became a victim to it as well. It just tore every person apart as it unravelled them instead of vice versa. There are two killings which you won’t be able to forget. A couple at a lover’s lane and another couple by themselves at a remote lake. I personally wrote off going to either after watching these scenes!
Zodiac – The Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector’s Edition): RUFFALO,MARK: Based on the actual case files of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes in the nation’s history, “Zodiac” is a thriller from David Fincher, director of “Se7en” and “Panic Room.” As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues. Closer in spirit to a police procedural than a gory serial-killer flick, David Fincher’s Zodiac provides a sleek, armrest-gripping re-invention of the crime film. It surveys the investigation of the Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay area in the late -60-early -70s; Zodiac not only killed people, but cultivated a Jack the Ripper aura by sending icky letters to the newspapers and daring readers to solve coded messages. But the film’s focus isn’t on the killer. We follow the reporters and detectives whose lives are taken over by the case, notably an addictive crime writer (a sartorially splendid Robert Downey Jr.), an awkward editorial cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal), and a hard-working cop (Mark Ruffalo). Fincher and his brilliant cinematographer Harris Savides are deft at capturing the period feel of the city, without laying on the seventies kitsch, and James Vanderbilt’s script doles out its big moments to major and minor characters alike. Fincher’s confidence is infectious; the movie glides through its myriad details with such dexterity that even the blind alleys and red herrings seem essential. The well-chosen cast includes unexpected people popping up all over: Anthony Edwards as a lunch-bucket homicide cop; Charles Fleischer as a mysterious suspect; Elias Koteas and Donal Logue as small-town policemen whose districts are hit by Zodiac; Chloe Sevigny as Gyllenhaal’s sweet-natured wife; Brian Cox as the media-friendly lawyer Melvin Belli, so famous he once appeared on Star Trek; and the mighty John Carroll Lynch, as a supremely creepy suspect. The film is based on non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith (he’s portrayed by Gyllenhaal), although Fincher and co. did extensive research on their own. The result is a propulsive whodunit without (thus far) an ending, but the uncertainty makes the film even more intriguing. –Robert Horton
Beyond Zodiac
The Zodiac (2005) |
Curse of the Zodiac (2007) |
The Novel |
Stills from Zodiac (click for larger image)
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