Hello again folks. This is Scorpio speaking. Just kidding. Sorry I haven't posted in so long. Been very busy...
Well, I finally rented
Zodiac last week, and I agree, it was a very good film. Excellent ambiguous ending. The continuous titles in the beginning got to be a bit tedious, but they do help to convey the pace of events with regard to this case in the late '60's & early '70s. It did bring back a lot of memories for me personally, having been about 5 years of age in Bay Area when this maniac got started. I still have dim memories of the school buses being escorted home by police back in '69.
The Zodiac was basically our "Bogeyman" back in those days. You know the stories --check under your bed at night to make sure he isn't under there... etc., etc. Yes, I also liked the scenes in the moviehouse from
Dirty Harry. I guess Warner Bros. decided to do this, in lieu of doing another DH...
Anyways, they did a fine job with it. It is an accurate account of this serial murderer and the unsolved case that it remains to this day. The actors & art directors did a nice job with this period piece as well. Jake Gyllenhaal has probably never seen a real pay phone booth in his life though !! Hard to imagine a world without computers and cell phones now... Those days almost seem like the dark ages --compared to what we've got now.
One more thing:
Hollywood couldn't have dreamed up a better screenplay for a murder mystery. A well told story and a job very nicely done.
-Blu
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