Zodiac: Fincher's Procedural About the Cost of Obsession

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

David Fincher made his name on Se7en, a film that ends with the worst thing in a box and a killer who wins by design. So the first surprise of Zodiac, released in 2007, is how completely it refuses that machinery. Here is the same director, working in the same genre — a hunt for a serial murderer who taunts the press — and he strips out almost everything an audience expects a serial-killer film to deliver. No cathartic capture. No final confrontation. No music swelling to tell you the horror is over. What Fincher gives you instead is the truest film ever made about the actual texture of a criminal investigation: the phone calls, the handwriting samples, the jurisdictional squabbles, the years.

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Zodiac: Fincher's Procedural About the Cost of Obsession