Monday, July 30, 2007

Zodiac

I watched "Zodiac" last week and didn't find it to be particularly scary. Of course the things portrayed in the movie actually happened, but I don't consider movies to be real life and thus are not scary.

So I told my friend AH about it, and she decided to watch it as well. I was scolded the next day for lying about how scary it was. Apparently, she was so afraid she wouldn't even go outside to smoke a cigarette. Oh, to be such a scaredy-cat.
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Kent W. said...

Zodiac isn't a horror film, necessarily. It is, however, a study in near perfect direction (although I felt the pacing could have been tighter).

Fincher (director of seven and fight club) took another step towards being the best big screen director around in the industry with Zodiac. The killing scene in the park, for instance, is one of the most effective, true-to-life scenes I've observed in a film this year. I mean it just felt so utterly real.

The only thing the movie lacked was an overarching emotional "oomph". And I think that was by design. The creeping, existential dread that pervades the film might have been rendered immaterial by a more affectively satisfying conclusion.

August 1, 2007 at 8:20 AM
la petite chou chou said...

Agreed. I tried to explain to her that it wasn't a horror movie and I couldn't understand why she was so scared.

I found it to be seamless, in that I didn't really notice the directing. Probably aided in making it a more fluid movie in which I wasn't distracted by anything odd that directors tend to add in to name themselves in the film. Know what I mean? And I know what you mean with that death at the lake scene. I kept thinking, "oh my god, how did they make it look so real with that??"

Though I may throw out there that the end may have been less satisfying because there was also no end in real life. They were never able to close it.

August 1, 2007 at 9:32 PM

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