Many people have obsessions with certain things. For me, it's celebrity birthdays as well as astrology and Dolphins. But I Digress.
I recently saw the move "Zodiac" which is based on a tragedy that happened in San Francisco back in the late 1960's. A few people were murdered, mostly women, and their lover that they are with either dies or survives.
Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed Robert as a cartoonist who soon decides to trade everything for making a story that would end in his marriage. Even the real Robert Graysmith, who is still alive today, said, "after seeing this film, now I know why my wife left me."
The movie begins on the Fourth of July where a couple goes to a lake and is alone. Suddenly, a man comes and shoots them, leaving one of them alive.
He comes back again stabbing another couple, one survives. Shoots and kills a cab driver, threatens to kill kids getting off a bus. And much more. To this day, the Zodiac killer had never been caught, and they believe he is long dead.
Robert Downey Jr. portrays Paul Avery. Another worker of the San Francisco Chronicle and eventually decided to go his own way. Never knowing he would end up losing his job after his life is threatened by the Zodiac killer.
Some of the movie is mostly "historical fiction" which means the names are real, but what they did, the fabricated information on
People assumed it might have been more than one person involved. Who knows. He left puzzles for not only the police, but the people that worked with the Newspaper....which got Robert Graysmith involved with the obsession.
In the movie, near the ending, there is a hidden gem. One of the survivors of the Zodiac Killer, Bryan C. Hartnell, is seen only quickly as an extra walking past Mark Ruffalo and Dumont Mullrony.
He doesn't remember much of the tragic incident and has come back to ID who he thought was the killer
Some people thought a man named Arthur Leigh Allen was the killer. His birthday was around December which is when one of the first killings occurred.
He was accused, arrested, and his brother was estranged from him. He is portrayed by John Carroll Lynch in the movie "Zodiac" He did a pretty good job portraying someone who was fingered as a killer in people's eyes.
The last time he is seen is when Robert Graysmith meets him in his new job working at a hardware store.
The book came out in the 90's and the movie was out in 2007. After the movie ended, the case went back open. However, Arthur Leigh Allen died of a heart attack back in the 90's and they considered him to have been the real Zodiac Killer.
I don't know if the case is closed or not. All I know is.... this movie shows an obsession from one man's point of view, and how far it would go. I don't know if Zodiac won any academy awards.... but it did get San Fransico to reopen the case wide open. However, I fear this case will remain...cold.
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