It was the summer of 2007. Having no place to go and nothing better to do, with noone to meet as a full time lazy creep job I decided I will see a long awaited movie called the zodiac. I expected boring piece of crap about emotion-less investigation and boring trial scenes where in realistic costumes and photography I will numb myself with a 2 hour movie as I did on a regular basis. The premiere in my country was ... probably also around the 4th of july. Getting out of the army for a short time pass I felt that moment of a glorious freedom, an asylum from everything, I had a 3 day pass... So actually it got me pretty excited about going out and watching something all by myself without any reason at all. Well so during the warm evening I got into cool cinema where I could still smell the fresh summer air from the outside with some small dose of a typical smell from the cinema. Barely 20 people were in the room. No wonder, cause it was still pretty early.
The kind of mystery that you could very clearly see in the twin peaks series. Just where nothing bad can happen because everybody knows eachother someone suddenly a very intense execution takes place in the burbs. You can see that the characters are living their normal lives, some of them probably already know who it was just in the town's mysterious inner relations are not willing to relase any info regarding the crime. We are clearly set in a at least weird perspective where from the one hand we see a murder that shouldn't take place, in the other hand we see a portrayal of a man that rebelled and shaped a new reality of a crime- terror, in the end shaking whole state with very media-popular letters that the notority just spreaded his outlaw legend, just like earlier role model of John Dillinger. In the movie we can even see how the media and gov. authorities allowed a live tv session interview with the supposed zodiac. It is pretty much a perfect movie to watch on a balcony or backyard in a warm summer night, I tend to watch it every summer.
The Dillinger of the 60-70 portrayal is an surefire creep. But also it has the feel of a "new cool" creep. Movie does very well in delivering the ideas and feel of the bizarre reign of terror in california and the panic and paranoid chase after the terrorist which destroyed many lives and careers of that time. Now heres the part of the movie that changes perspective from a gritty violence movie turns into a movie in style of a epic story, of the strings of events that hapenned AFTER the murders, the hopeless investigation, the ruined lives and careers of the law enforcement, the frustration over missed chances and focusing on a bizzarre effect of a well performed terror campaign.
Movie shows and whats great we can actually feel how bad time shaped the rest of what was left after the official investigation, continuing obsessive paranoia around fading sheds of evidence, just like an really bad scar that hardly stopped bleeding. Thats what this movie is about, the scar on the system that have failed and the scar on the society that bleeded both emotionally and physically. But not on the official streams, movie focuses on the backdoor, the kitchen of whats going on around in the neigborhood.
If you like it, check the blu ray version ! Get all the smallest details from this movie, because it is one of the rare movies today that were filmed in Viper cameras by a real professional ! (sorry michael mann, your camera work sucks)
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