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Zodiac 4K 2007 Ultra HD 2160p
Сountry: USA
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson, John Lacy, Chloë Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, June Diane Raphael
The true story of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes of the last century.
A serial killer emerges in San Francisco who not only threatens the city's tranquility, but also taunts law enforcement officers with letters and messages of mystical content.
The unbridled rage of a madman who could never be caught in the act; an elusive killer, obsessed with ciphers, who held the entire nation in fear, America's Jack the Ripper. He publicly confessed to killing 13 people and then two dozen more. The police were able to “hang” on him six victims, the real number of victims will forever remain a mystery. One thing is certain: there are survivors among them.
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He existed in reality. He invented elaborate murders and amused himself by playing cat and mouse with the authorities: he sent coded letters to the editors of newspapers, where he shared his plans for the next bloody action. “Dear Editor, a murderer is writing to you,” he began his letters to the San Francisco Examiner. He demanded that the letter be published immediately. Signed his name: Zodiac. This went on for decades, and the exact number of his victims has never been determined. Nor, for that matter, has the identity of the madman. The case of California's Jack the Ripper, who held the city in panicked fear, remained unsolved.
Journalist Robert Graysmith wrote two books about the Zodiac. He was not a crime reporter, but an intern cartoonist at the San Francisco Examiner, very green. But since childhood he was fond of ciphers and plunged headlong into the investigation of pathological intricacies of his hero. For many years sat on this needle, unable to break away from the delusional cryptograms. The schedule of his entire life now depended on the next craziness of the maniac. In the books “Zodiac” and “Zodiac unmasked” he traced in detail minute by minute course of terrible events that shook California.
Future director David Fincher was afraid of the Zodiac in school. The whole city talked only about a serial killer, and second-grader Fincher imagined how now he will get off the school bus and the killer will shoot him on the doorstep of his home. “I grew up in San Francisco and knew the geography of his murders,” says the director. - Then we moved to another city, but even there everyone was talking about the Zodiac".
Preparing for the movie, Fincher mired in documents. In search of a clue combed through more than ten thousand pages of police reports and testimonies. Talked to those victims of the Zodiac, who managed to survive - they gave contradictory testimony. Especially focused on the story of a certain teacher-pedophile, who was considered the main suspect. But still the most valuable material drew from the books Graysmith: "Witnesses constantly refuted each other, a lot of erased from memory, a lot of myths. And we chose the only possible way - to take as a basis for the versions set out by Graysmith, and his himself to make the main character in the movie, showing the events as if through his eyes.
In the movie, directed by Fincher on the books of Graysmith, this character is played by Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mountain (2005)), and his colleague, the dodgy newspaper wolf Paul Avery, - Robert Downey Jr. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)).
Megatons of reading material always weighs on the psyche. Graysmith's two voluminous volumes do, too - they had to be tamped down into a 2.5-hour movie somehow. Even Fincher couldn't do it: unlike his super-tense “Seven” and "Fight Club (1999), the new picture is overloaded with information, its plot is punctuated and more like a synopsis than a full-fledged detective. The abundance of material simply leaves no room for Fincher's favorite game of stylish, “atmospheric” cinema - the film develops in a straight line, it is one-dimensional. It is perceived as dynamic sound illustrations of crime chronicles - a genre quite common on TV, but it doesn't smell like Fincher. Since the mystery of the Zodiac has not been solved, the ending is known in advance - this does not add to the suspense.
The most intriguing part of the whole story is definitely the cipher game. It was started by Zodiac in the very first letter sent to three California newspapers on August 1, 1969: "I want you to print this cipher on the front page of your newspaper. In the cipher is my name. If you do not print this cipher by Friday noon, I will begin a bloody bacchanalia at night. “I will kill people all weekend.”
And then for decades the newspapers were flooded with lengthy letters containing details of the murders that could only be known to the killer and the police. Each one was accompanied by a cipher. Each one more brazen than the last. "The police will never catch me because I'm too smart for them. The death machine is already running..."
This kind of intoxication with omnipotence makes the lives of those around him shaky and unstable. Fincher remembers his childhood fears, and this state of hopelessness in his movie entrusts to music - asks composer David Shire to use unstable, as if intermediate atonal sounds, to manipulate them, without repeating once. "I want the soundtrack to give the story a new dimension - not just to accompany this or that episode, but to penetrate the minds and hearts of the characters. I even think that the musical instruments express specific characters: the trumpet is Inspector David Toshi, the piano is Graysmith, the dissonant strings are the serial killer Zodiac". The director plays these “strings of souls” quite masterfully, and, in my opinion, it is the soundtrack that brings a breath of art and signs of Fincher's signature “Fincherian” skill to the monotonously documented narrative.
What failed decisively is to build suspense, the breath-taking tension of action development. Fincher tries to simulate it artificially - he uses banal techniques like alarming phone calls and heavy breathing in the receiver, but he fails to make the viewer grab the arms of the seats. Bottom line: we will see a police chronicle - the investigation is meticulous, detailed and well played by the actors. But to tear people in the audience from the enthusiastic eating popcorn new tape Fincher can not.
The movie was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and did not receive anything there.
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
#English: Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
A serial killer emerges in San Francisco who not only threatens the city's tranquility, but also taunts law enforcement officers with letters and messages of mystical content.
The unbridled rage of a madman who could never be caught in the act; an elusive killer, obsessed with ciphers, who held the entire nation in fear, America's Jack the Ripper. He publicly confessed to killing 13 people and then two dozen more. The police were able to “hang” on him six victims, the real number of victims will forever remain a mystery. One thing is certain: there are survivors among them.
User Review
He existed in reality. He invented elaborate murders and amused himself by playing cat and mouse with the authorities: he sent coded letters to the editors of newspapers, where he shared his plans for the next bloody action. “Dear Editor, a murderer is writing to you,” he began his letters to the San Francisco Examiner. He demanded that the letter be published immediately. Signed his name: Zodiac. This went on for decades, and the exact number of his victims has never been determined. Nor, for that matter, has the identity of the madman. The case of California's Jack the Ripper, who held the city in panicked fear, remained unsolved.
Journalist Robert Graysmith wrote two books about the Zodiac. He was not a crime reporter, but an intern cartoonist at the San Francisco Examiner, very green. But since childhood he was fond of ciphers and plunged headlong into the investigation of pathological intricacies of his hero. For many years sat on this needle, unable to break away from the delusional cryptograms. The schedule of his entire life now depended on the next craziness of the maniac. In the books “Zodiac” and “Zodiac unmasked” he traced in detail minute by minute course of terrible events that shook California.
Future director David Fincher was afraid of the Zodiac in school. The whole city talked only about a serial killer, and second-grader Fincher imagined how now he will get off the school bus and the killer will shoot him on the doorstep of his home. “I grew up in San Francisco and knew the geography of his murders,” says the director. - Then we moved to another city, but even there everyone was talking about the Zodiac".
Preparing for the movie, Fincher mired in documents. In search of a clue combed through more than ten thousand pages of police reports and testimonies. Talked to those victims of the Zodiac, who managed to survive - they gave contradictory testimony. Especially focused on the story of a certain teacher-pedophile, who was considered the main suspect. But still the most valuable material drew from the books Graysmith: "Witnesses constantly refuted each other, a lot of erased from memory, a lot of myths. And we chose the only possible way - to take as a basis for the versions set out by Graysmith, and his himself to make the main character in the movie, showing the events as if through his eyes.
In the movie, directed by Fincher on the books of Graysmith, this character is played by Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mountain (2005)), and his colleague, the dodgy newspaper wolf Paul Avery, - Robert Downey Jr. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)).
Megatons of reading material always weighs on the psyche. Graysmith's two voluminous volumes do, too - they had to be tamped down into a 2.5-hour movie somehow. Even Fincher couldn't do it: unlike his super-tense “Seven” and "Fight Club (1999), the new picture is overloaded with information, its plot is punctuated and more like a synopsis than a full-fledged detective. The abundance of material simply leaves no room for Fincher's favorite game of stylish, “atmospheric” cinema - the film develops in a straight line, it is one-dimensional. It is perceived as dynamic sound illustrations of crime chronicles - a genre quite common on TV, but it doesn't smell like Fincher. Since the mystery of the Zodiac has not been solved, the ending is known in advance - this does not add to the suspense.
The most intriguing part of the whole story is definitely the cipher game. It was started by Zodiac in the very first letter sent to three California newspapers on August 1, 1969: "I want you to print this cipher on the front page of your newspaper. In the cipher is my name. If you do not print this cipher by Friday noon, I will begin a bloody bacchanalia at night. “I will kill people all weekend.”
And then for decades the newspapers were flooded with lengthy letters containing details of the murders that could only be known to the killer and the police. Each one was accompanied by a cipher. Each one more brazen than the last. "The police will never catch me because I'm too smart for them. The death machine is already running..."
This kind of intoxication with omnipotence makes the lives of those around him shaky and unstable. Fincher remembers his childhood fears, and this state of hopelessness in his movie entrusts to music - asks composer David Shire to use unstable, as if intermediate atonal sounds, to manipulate them, without repeating once. "I want the soundtrack to give the story a new dimension - not just to accompany this or that episode, but to penetrate the minds and hearts of the characters. I even think that the musical instruments express specific characters: the trumpet is Inspector David Toshi, the piano is Graysmith, the dissonant strings are the serial killer Zodiac". The director plays these “strings of souls” quite masterfully, and, in my opinion, it is the soundtrack that brings a breath of art and signs of Fincher's signature “Fincherian” skill to the monotonously documented narrative.
What failed decisively is to build suspense, the breath-taking tension of action development. Fincher tries to simulate it artificially - he uses banal techniques like alarming phone calls and heavy breathing in the receiver, but he fails to make the viewer grab the arms of the seats. Bottom line: we will see a police chronicle - the investigation is meticulous, detailed and well played by the actors. But to tear people in the audience from the enthusiastic eating popcorn new tape Fincher can not.
The movie was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and did not receive anything there.
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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (74.1 Mb/s)Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
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