The Homicidal Zodiac Killer

In terms of 2007, the case of the homicidal Zodiac killer that caused so much mass murdering and panic which sprung a case through the late very late 1960's through the very early 2000's of San Francisco, kind of feels like one of those events that could be considered “too soon” to make into a movie. Not due to sensitivity issues, or out of fear of offending those involved, but because there are so many factors to consider in the case and so many moving parts to the whole enterprise that it could be decades until we can finally understand what happened. To depict that on film will require a very subtle hand and a dramatic touch; which is why it was a definite must to get the acclaimed director of such stirring American crime thrillers such
as "The Game" or "Se7en" David Fincher on board.

It's a thriller in the very broad terms, it moves so slowly and patiently. You slowly become obsessed alongside the film's main character; Robert Graysmith. Graysmith exist as a stand-in, ultimately demonstrating a evolution of curiosity to obsession that eventually. The audience is Graysmith; and it's required for the audience to have so much culpability into the Zodiac case.

As fore-mentioned before, Zodiac is not this fast-paced action-drenched thriller, it's so patient and calculated. The way it requires the audience to just be involved in it and then leaves it hanging at the end is just so breathtakingly refreshing and completely resonates with you that it forms into one of the best conclusion brought to film. But part of the reason the conclusion is so gosh damn perfect, is just how imperfect it is. It cannot give it's audience a firm ending so they can go home and sleep properly at night, and you are frustrated by the lack of a solid conclusion and the fact that you'll never know the solid truth, but that's the truth of life sometimes and Fincher boldly takes you to that place.