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Moral Rating:. Relevant Issues. About murder in the Bible. Positive —…My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed this film. I felt the pacing was excellent for a film of this length. Even the audience in the theater seemed to enjoy it and did not seem to mind the long running time.
I admit the editing was a bit quick; however, I believe it worked for this film. I have seen many long movies and this is one of the only ones that I can say held my attention the entire time without letting go.
I felt the acting was particularly well done, especially Robert Downey and Mark Ruffalo. From a Christian perspective, it is what it seems. This is a story based on real-life events that were not particularly pleasant so one should expect some grisly murders. The movie also centers around characters in the journalism and police industry which are of course known for the profanity that is a part of their daily lives.
All those points aside, there is nothing that I found particularly offensive to someone over 16 years of age. Overall, I must say this movie was much better than I expected going in, and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested. Families can talk about the media's relationship with serial killers. How do the killers use the media to gain attention?
How do the media use the killers to gain ratings? How do viewers and readers respond to such coverage? Think about how movies portray killers and their pursuers: Unlike The Silence of the Lambs , this movie focuses on the investigation, with very little information about the killer. How does that affect the film's narrative and displays of violence? Is violence more effective when it's shown, or when it's implied? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 23 reviews. In almost every scene -- besides perhaps two, and I'll talk about one of those in a minute -- there is no peril for our lead cast of characters. It's cracking codes, worming through clues and watching weeks turn to months, and eventually to years.
So the tension is not in the actual plot of the story, which is slightly unusual for a police procedural. And now you're most likely asking, "where is the tension then? The case defines the characters; obsession grips all three leads, particularly Robert Graysmith, played by the always excellent Jake Gyllenhaal. Each of the character arcs are superbly written, and relationships are made and broken by the obsession that consumes the characters -- obsession that in one particular case falls in rags, giving way to hopelessness and the drunk, houseboat bound life of a degenerate.
Watching the characters sober and come so close, only to inevitably fall short is a real experience. There are a few exceptionally brilliant scenes, and I alluded to one of them earlier. That scene is the the infamous basement scene. Most people with knowledge of Finchers work knows about this scene, and it is not so well known for no reason.
It comes with a potential revelation, hope that perhaps the killer that Graysmith has been hunting for the last two hours of the movie has finally been tracked down. And this intrigue is central to the scene. I won't go on any further. If you haven't seen the movie, I encourage to find the rest out for yourself, and if you have seen it, then you already know all else there is to tell about this masterclass in scene construction, shot composition, and character development.
And there is so much more to tell. This scene is fantastic. Utterly flawless, and so marvelously nail-biting. The next scene I want to highlight is the true cadence of the film. Everything leads up to this moment, and the long, long wait finally rewards the viewer in one, devastating moment.
And that's all it is -- a moment. A calm, calculated moment. There are no flying bullets. There is no loud wild music. There is no great chase. A man walks into a hardware store and then leaves moments later, after a marvelously foreshadowed, but extremely simple event that I can't give away.
Again, if you've seen the movie, you know what I'm going on about, and you know just how effective the little moment is, and how it just wraps everything together. The understated nature of this climax amplifies the point I made earlier as well; the tension is in character, not plot. Any other scene would not have truly enclosed everything that the film had established, and in my opinion, this is one of the best crests of a story line ever written, finding competition only in Fincher's other masterpiece of a police procedural Se7en.
Zodiac is one of the few gems of cinema made in recent years. Fincher is so often described as meticulous and calculated that it has almost become tiresome, but his man truly does direct his material like a razor blade. Clean, sharp, and precisely placed. He lets nothing slip in Zodiac.
He lets nothing feel rushed, dragged, and despite the run time, it never overstays its welcome. It truly is nothing short of perfect. Adult Written by Sam M. March 17, Mesmerized by a Killer The film dosnt examine what makes a serial killer and it is not about that.
It is how people go about dealing with thier fear of such killers and how that affects the authorities' hunts for such monsters. While very slow and talky, every scene bleeds a growing snese of unrest and forcefull removal from our confort zone.
This slow pacing alows us to feel the descent into hysteria in great detail and allows us to contemplate of every aspect of the characters lives tht will be affected by this phenomenon. Scenes building up to the killings, especially one involvibg a single movie with a newborn who breaks down on a dark highway with only one other character, are as unnerving as they are poetic and empathetic. Another standout scene is one with Gyllenhaal in a basement of a supposedly accomplice of the killer and you can just feel the environment closing in.
The cast is underatated yet magnetic and thiwr interconnecting stories blend subtly but effectively. There are 3 scenes of actual killings, one is somehwat graphic and involves gunshots with some blood getting over the interior of a car, one is brief with multiple stabbings with some blood amd one os a shooting in a very dark setting with some slow motion blood spray. Adult Written by BestPicture January 24, Press ESC to cancel.
Cover Letter. Ben Davis March 19, Why is the Zodiac movie rated R? Is Zodiac a PG?
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