Just 18 days until David Fincher's Zodiac arrives! I've got it on the brain today - well, it's on the brain every day, but moreso at the moment - after reading this sort-of-reviewish-type-deal that Nat linked to by Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere. A couple of choice quotes:
"What it is, most definitely, is a commercial art film of the highest order -- an existential police procedural about one of the most notorious "cold" investigations in U.S. history. It's especially haunting for me because it doesn't have a finale that conventionally "pays off." It's a movie about the unsolvability of some things -- about how some riddle or intrigue will sometimes excite you and then turn around and mess with you big-time, and then finally deny a sense of closure. I don't exactly know why I think it's a better film because of this. I just know that a film as assured, well honed and tightly packed as this one deserves to be seen at least two if not three times."
"It's the most masterly film of Fincher's career. He doesn't seem to be pushing or selling or manipulating anything here -- he's just got a good grip on the material, and is letting it play itself out according to its own rhyme... All I know is that I couldn't get enough of it -- it ticks like a metronome and sucks you in without really delivering anything stand-out spectacular in the way of mind-blowing finales, pull-out-the-stops performances (which isn't to take anything away from the actors, who are damn near perfect) or shocking plot turns. It scores primarily by just being a great piece of filmmaking. "
Jesus. Seriously, we're looking at 18 horrendously long days til this thing is here. My patience is worn thin. I need it now. Now!!!
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