So anticlimactic
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Zodiac
zcid47 — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 09:09 PM)
So in the middle of the movie the police is quite sure that Leigh Allen is the Zodiac but they can't prove it so they can't catch him.. and then for the rest of the movie we see the cartoonist doing more research just to conclude that Leigh Allen was indeed the Zodiac but he also can't prove it to catch him
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ticktickBOOOM — 9 years ago(May 10, 2016 08:28 AM)
I also couldn't believe that Mark Ruffalo (or the police in general)
hadn't done the same deduction that Gyllenhaal did at the end in the cafe, all he did was compare dates, letters and what they knew of Allen's whereabouts at that time, and he had it figured out. Why hadn't the cops already done this simple equation?.
I was never one to hold grudges. My father held grudges, I'll always hate him for that -
Mart1138 — 9 years ago(May 14, 2016 06:48 AM)
SPOILER ALERT (don't know how to do the blackout thingy like the guys above!!)
The police couldn't put together a complete timeline of both Allen and Zodiac as each jurisdiction had different parts of the puzzle that were not shared between them. Graysmith's research concludes information from each jurisdiction and thus completing the timelines of both Allen and Zodiac for complete comparison.
I think it's a wonderful film, especially on a second viewing as when Allen is questioned you know it's him! and the tension is unbearable as you know they have to let him go as it's all circumstantial. The police departments at the time are ill-equips in the sharing of evidence across jurisdictions, communication is minimal and the newspapers print everything that all jurisdictions receive without each of the departments communicating and thus giving a much deeper, contorted and confusing number of facts. Zodiac used the press to hide his actions by confessing to murders he hadn't even committed jumbling up all the evidence and at the same time goading the police into making poor decisions, rushing to ill conceived evidence and really just getting into a terrible mess! It makes me think that by the end of the 60s definitely by the end of the 70s if they had all sat down at a table and gone through all the evidence together they would have come to the same conclusion the Graysmuith comes to.
The movie could have ended up going down the 'Silence of the Lambs' route and made up a fictional ending where Graysmuith is in the basement of the killer and an attack ensues ala Buffalo Bill - Clarisse Starling and I bet the studio wanted that too! So good for David Fincher.. Anyway that's my take on the events. Cheers x -
glaeken777 — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 04:34 PM)
Graysmith is convinced it's Allen. In that sense, the movie is an "accurate" take on the source material. There's simply not enough convincing evidence to tie ALA to the crimes.
The movie's ending is anti-climactic, but I like that about it. Real life is often that way. -
ridge-m-1 — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 05:53 PM)
Why do so many watchers of movies based on actual events not have a frickin' clue what the movie is about while the popcorn is in the microwave. We live in a society of under-educated, under-achieving individuals stumbling along their life's path.