David Finch, black seems to be the base of his films, and his films will use unusually jumpy structures and extremely stylized scenes to make you change into a chronic poisoned sense of addiction.
Whether it's "Seven Deadly Sins," "Fight Club," "The Wonders of Benjamin Button," or, more recently, "The Vanishing Lover," the themes of his films are often dystopian, counter-mainstream, and even anti-moral.
His films are always filled with dark emotions. He uses every opportunity to draw the audience into his carefully crafted anxieties, moral corruption and emotional repression, firmly controlling the attention of each audience.
David Finch is one of the directors of the continuation of modernity in film noir, and his films can be classified as suspenseful, thriller, detective, and surreal, but his black genre elements are always in it.
The transcendent beauty and criminal pleasure brought by film noir that deviates from traditional values makes people enjoy the thrill and madness of adrenaline in anxiety and uneasiness.
Today, Fat Brother introduces a film that doesn't look like David Finch, "The Zodiac Killer.".
The film is based on real events, a serial murder case that has not yet been convicted, and there is no reliable evidence to point to an apparent offender. Many criminals are suspected, the loss of time at any time, the witnesses are old, the criminals have died one after another, and the truth has been covered up by time, becoming a history with no end.
The Zodiac Killer is 160 minutes long. Without David Finch's fierce narrative rhythm, without ingenious structural arrangements, the characters are also bland and the theme is obscure, this anti-David Finch prefers a subjective narrative style, but gives the whole story to time, lets time secretly speak, lets the characters struggle in time, let the story develop in time, although the film ends, but time still plays a role, drawing a mysterious symbol different from the end of the film, continuing all the time.
The storyline of the film is not complicated, and there are serial killers in the city, police and media involved. The killer who claimed to be the "Zodiac", sent secrets to the media, sent proof of the murder, threatened the media, published his statement, otherwise he would continue to kill people and even threaten to blow up the school bus.
The media was both scared and excited, and almost the whole society was paying attention to the killer of the "zodiac". What is strange is that there are thousands of people who claim to be murderers, and all of a sudden this murderous demon has become a mysterious heroic figure.
The media's shaping and tracking of interviews make it extremely difficult to handle cases, there is too much information, and the police detective needs to remove the false and the true in the complex and complex information, which consumes a lot of time and experience.
At the same time, because the murder occurred in different areas, it is necessary for the police officers in the jurisdiction to coordinate and cooperate in handling the case, which in turn makes evidence collection and information communication cause delays and losses. The information in the whole case was torn apart and caused a headache.
During one of the most recent visits, all three detectives identified a man named Arthur Lee Allen as the killer, but during the evidence confirmation phase, they found that all the evidence, including ballistics, fingerprints, and writing fonts, was biased and could not be convicted.
More than a decade later, although there are many suspects, no key evidence can convict any one of them. Some people think that there may not be more than one "zodiac" killer.
Because of the continuous tracking of the media at that time, many fanatics followed the example of the "Zodiac" killer, and this serial murder case is still an unsolved case.
Although "Zodiac Killer" is adapted from real events, and the time span is long, the film's narrative rhythm is slow, but the film is definitely not a tasteless "flowing account".
The film has arranged for three key characters to appear, advancing the story one after another, enriching the theme, so that the suspenseful tension of the climactic moment suddenly explodes, making the audience creepy and inhaling a cool breath.
So, "The Zodiac Killer" still follows the dramatic structure of the Hollywood film tradition. The transformation and intersection of the narrative center of the characters is the center of the structural sub-curtain.
The film has featured the big reporter Paul, detective David and cartoonist Robert.
Paul assumes the first act of the murderer's current situation. The "Zodiac" killers continued to plan and sent letters to the media again and again. Paul was undoubtedly the central figure in the initial pursuit.
With his ability to search for clues, he defines the basic character of the "Zodiac" killer, and believes that he has homosexual tendencies, and secretly goes to meet a mysterious informant and obtains major clues. His constant approaching, which troubled the murderer, and sent him threatening letters alone, kept Paul in an uneasy life.
At this time, the two characters, Policeman David and Cartoonist Robert, have been in the second protagonist position, acting as auxiliary and interactive functions.
After entering the second scene, Detective David begins to emerge, and the role of his partner gradually becomes heavy, and he and many detectives begin to become the center of the narrative, and they are responsible for the scene close to the murderer.
David and the murderer used handwriting as a key breakthrough, hoping to confirm the real murderer by comparing the suspect with the font of the letter sent to the media. By integrating information from various police stations, they finally approached the most likely killer.
The climax of this scene is the confrontation between the three detectives and Arthur Lee Allen, the three take turns to ask questions, observe Lee, all the clues gradually become clear, the first time the three meet, seems to meet all their presuppositions.
The three began to bite Li and apply for a search warrant, but unfortunately, in the end, they failed. All items found, including handwriting, cannot be convicted.
In the first two acts, the narrative rhythm of the film is extremely restrained. After entering the third scene, the cartoonist Robert, who has been in the side role in front of him, takes over the burden of the two and begins to become the protagonist of the narrative, and the narrative begins to accelerate.
As the years passed, the case was hardly left unattended, Detective David's partner retired, and he gradually lost information.
Paul went to other newspapers, indulged in alcohol, wasted his days, and panicked.
Robert, who had been accumulating material at the beginning, accidentally discovered several key points of the incident, and he magically re-integrated the information, and with the help of David, he finally integrated the information of all the districts and police districts.
He found the key witness, and at the same time found the point of the murderer's mistake, concluding that Arthur Lee Allen was the murderer!
The narrative rhythm of this scene continues to accelerate, and the information foreshadowing buried in the early stage is detonated one after another under the integration of the characters, which makes the audience suddenly fall into a turbulent information frenzy.
It can be said that in the first 2 hours, David Finch is accumulating power for the characters and the story, adding bricks and tiles to the suspense, and adding the explosive power of the final climax with the attachment of time.
At the climax of act THREE, David Finch even changes the true tone of the story and sets up a playful dramatic event. Robert stumbled into the home of what he considered to be a witness, and after a few conversations, he discovered that the witness might be the killer.
In that gloomy basement, several key messages kept ringing Robert's alarm bells, how the stranger looked more and more like a murderer, he was lost, he was afraid, he was weak, he couldn't breathe, his legs were pierced with lead.
He sped out of what he thought was the end of the trail and returned to the endless darkness again.
It's a highly metaphorical scene, comic bookist Robert has always been a small character in the story, in an inconspicuous corner, if it were not for this serial murder, no one would have found his existence value.
In fact, the three characters, through this case, continue to prove their own value, but unfortunately time slowly burned away their passion, drowned their initial ideals, more than ten years, decades passed, this trigger for their new life of the event, only provided a beginning, but did not give an end.
All three people's lives have fallen into an embarrassing situation with no end.
Paul anesthetized himself by alcohol, David was transferred to escape, and Robert nearly lost his family.
Because of this matter that has no end, the three of them have been unable to start a new stage of life. The continuation of time makes them search for the meaning of life in the void, only to find a void, and what they spend a large part of their lives chasing is still an illusion!
The story and characters of "The Zodiac Killer" are all connected by time, and time subtitles appear many times in the film to remind the audience of the development of the story and the changes in the characters.
Time drives the story and twists the characters. Time brings endless anxiety!
Time became the style, theme, ideology and formal strategy of the film!
In this film noir, which is the backbone of the narrative of time, the film continues to tell us:
The world is wrong! Something is wrong with society!
The connection point of the second and third acts of the film appears for a few minutes of time montage, without pictures, but in the form of television broadcasts, telling us the passage of time with the time of the occurrence of historical events.
Years passed, and the case dusted down, but there was no final result. The only thing that has changed is the human heart.
Sin and violence seem to become universal, eternal.
A disappointed David told Robert, who was desperately pursuing, do you know how many homicides occurred in the years after the Zodiac incident? People have long forgotten about this case?
The frenzied media, the weary detectives, the anxious masses are constantly caught up in one sensational murder after another. The Zodiac has long since become a thing of the past, a footnote to violence and history.
In the time that changes, cities are always filled with violence, betrayal and despair.
The vitality of life and time seems to be blamed on death and the mystery yet to be revealed.
Criminals are the "stars" of this society, the talk of the people and the proof of human existence.
In the end, violence transcends everything.
"Zodiac Killer" creates a sense of tension by constantly breaking through the psychological endurance of the concept. The less purpose of the entire black film is to create discomfort that is difficult to calm.
At the same time, let us be afraid of the future.
Finally, David Finch's The Zodiac Killer has a sociological function similar to that of Martin Scorsese's films, hoping to dissect historical and social shifts through a case.
In the film, the media and the three protagonists, including some minor characters, are all case-centered and a kind of cold-eyed bystander at a period of rapid social change.
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