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Zodiac : David Fincher’s okey dokey ones

Seven left me in depression hangover for two full days… no amount of beer, comedies, parties or porn could kick that out, each time I viewed in my mind the shot where Brad Pitt is holding the gun pointing at Spacey who’s kneeling before him, while half turning back screaming at Morgan Freeman to check the package out…

Fight Club. No questions. It blew me away from the opening shot until the last one. It has it’s few moments which put me off, but the overall impact was undeniable.

My mind screaming welcomed and permanently registered the name David “Genius” Fincher.

Call me the lazy fan, for when I stepped into Zodiac, I had absolutely no clue that it was a Fincher product.

Zodiac doesn’t impress, if compared to the impact created by Seven and Fight Club. But Zodiac doesn’t leave you unimpressed either.

Based on a true story of serial killing in the state of California from the late sixties to mid seventies, Fincher doesn’t entirely focuss on the killings unlike what he did in Seven. Instead he drives around the characters who got sucked into the whole sequence of events and became obsessive to the point of almost destroying their lives in the process… be it Inspector David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo hitting the right notes) or journalist Paul Avery (a good one by Robert Downey Jr.) or cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal, for once does leave quite a mark here).

The story follows the sequence of events right from the first killing known to the police to the last. It follows the investigation and the red tape and bureaucracy the cops have to face, and it shows some holes left in the investigation that Graysmith is ultimately able to fill in…

The story is held tight, and moves in a fast forward mode never letting you slip from it’s grip.

The tribulations that Toschi and later Graysmith, go through, are a treat to watch.

Zodiac may not be Fincher’s greatest ones but then again, the movie quite convincingly shows that Fincher, is yet to make a rotten one.

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9 Responses to “Zodiac : David Fincher’s okey dokey ones”

  1. randramble on March 2nd, 2007 8:40 pm

    Oz, what did you think of Panic Room?

  2. oz on March 2nd, 2007 9:11 pm

    uh… yeah forgot about Panic Room, which was thoroghly enjoyable…. I would say I liked Zodiac better than Panic Room.

  3. manan singh katohora on March 2nd, 2007 10:06 pm

    Robert Downey Jr. as Paul Avery rocked in the movie… watching it in a packed hall amidst the audience, 2 hr 40 minutes - i realized once again the brilliance of DAVID FINCHER as the story teller…

    being a true story - no one was expecting an anticlimax like SE7EN or a twist like FIGHT CLUB… yet he manages to hold the pulse till the last second…

    Kudos to Jake Gyllenhaal http://imdb.com/name/nm0350453/ ~ truly one of the best young actors in HOLLYWOOD and INDIE SCENE today… i love the way he selects his movies - JARHEAD, brokeback mountain, moonlight mile, the goodgirl and the studio summer bonanza The Day After Tomorrow

    loved the film ~ cant wait for DAVID’s next http://imdb.com/title/tt0421715/ “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with BRAD PITT…

  4. manan singh katohora on March 2nd, 2007 10:10 pm

    and lets not forget the crazy brothers film - sean penn - michael douglas THE GAME
    http://imdb.com/title/tt0119174/

  5. sanket on March 2nd, 2007 10:10 pm

    i guess 2007 zodiac, one wid mark ruffalo is the second one…in 2005 also thr was a movie zodiac on same events and build up was good but cauze its based on a real story the 2005 ZODIAC was dissappointing in the end!

  6. sanket on March 2nd, 2007 10:11 pm

    yeah THE GAME is a good movie too!

  7. jabina on March 3rd, 2007 12:43 am

    Yea i jsut saw Zodiac..i thought it was very well thought out …and it left me thinking

  8. mudassir on March 3rd, 2007 7:33 pm

    david fincher is an absolute genius
    i think his movies are always bordering on thr brink of insanity and pure surprise….
    fight club, the game and seven are proof enough…

  9. Thilak on March 4th, 2007 12:37 am

    and Alien3 is massively underrated…okay I’m a fan boy!!!! :d

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