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Excellent film, but spoiler alert in comment

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In Reply to: RE: Zodiac - what's the verdict before I commit to watch? Nt posted by geoffkait on February 17, 2018 at 07:56:05

Having grown up in the 70's (Southern, not Northern California), I felt that the filmmakers captured the look perfectly. The performances were great, and I liked it very much. I especially like Robert Downey's small part. The trouble with the movie is that, as in reality, they never catch the real killer. That makes it a kind of a long slog to get to nowhere. Kind of like real life. The real cop portrayed by Mark Ruffalo just passed away a few weeks ago. He was a self-promoter, and kind of messed up his own reputation. I have a blu-ray, and have watched it several times. Love the era, the sad story and the film. Fincher's one of the best.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/obituaries/david-toschi-8 (Open in New Window)

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The real killer - geoffkait 04:00:13 02/19/18 (1)
The Real Zodiac is DON HARDEN
He gives a clue to his identity in the name ZODIAC. The first three letters
are his first name backwards. The Zodiac symbol a cross over the letter O is
also almost his first name DON, Since it contains D and O. The Z in Zodiac
is the other letter N, sideways. Bingo!
The Halloween pumpkin card sent to cops by Zodiac also provides similar clues that Don Harden is the real Zodiac killer. Incidentally it was, uh, Don Harden who solved the only Zodiac cryptogram ever solved. Hel-loo!

Edits: 02/19/18
- RE: The real killer - fantja 05:53:37 02/22/18 (0)
  You are so good- GK.
Robert Graysmith used to sit at a table in The Owl & Monkey Cafe on 9th Ave,,,, - musetap 13:44:36 02/18/18 (0)
writing, writing, writing.... seems he was always there.

The book is excellent and of course the story is sad, and the film captures that to perfection.

Those were sad and scary times in SF, well documented in this highly recommended book:

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure

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