zodiac

Zodiac

March 23, 2007: Movie Review

Based on Robert Graysmith's book, Zodiac is the story of a serial

killer in

the 1960s and 1970s. The movie however tells the tale of the zodiac

killer

through media spectacle only randomly placing victims in cars and on

the

sides of the road. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Graysmith who was working as

a

cartoonist at the San Franscisco Chronicle at the time of the murders.

Although he plays a second hand role in the film, the conclusion to

the story

ends with his definitive answer to the problem. With constant time

jumping

scenes, the film still gets across the fear that the killings have

caused. With no concrete conclusions to end the tale, the most

unsettling

thing about this movie is that the killer is still out there...