"It begins with a murder, and then another. A woman is killed, a man grievously injured, and a letter is sent to the news media. The killer gives himself a name this is the Zodiac speaking and provides a message written in code. So we start with three mysteries: the man, his motives and his message. The third is quickly cracked; the first hypothesized, but never definitively proven."
"When it was first released more than 18 years ago, David Fincher's Zodiac was considered a bit of an also-ran. Over two and a half hours long, it depicts the search for the Zodiac killer, who spent the late 60s terrorizing California's Bay Area, as a series of bad leads and dead-ends, and concludes without definitively proving anything. It flopped at the box office and was not nominated for even a single Oscar."
A woman is killed, a man grievously injured, and a letter is sent to the news media. The killer names himself the Zodiac and sends a coded message. Three mysteries emerge: the killer's identity, his motives, and the meaning of his message. The cipher is quickly solved, while the suspect is hypothesized but never definitively proven. The central question remains why a man would kill at least five seemingly random people and why cultural fascination endures. The film Zodiac portrays the investigation as a chain of bad leads, dead-ends, and obsessively meticulous detectives and journalists navigating inconclusive evidence.
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