Zodiac
21 May, 2008
I didn’t watch all of Zodiac tonight. In fact, I hardly watched half of it. But I’ve seen it before, and that’s enough to click my brain into gear. There is something happening in David Fincher’s brain, in David Fincher’s style, his effortless telling of story, that I enjoy utterly. The temporal breaks are flawless because they are unacknowledged, the editing is seamless because it is choppy, the digital effects are effective because they are not flashy. Fincher does everything with a certain level of grit and grime and he does not waste time showing off. He is already on to the next thing when you realize that this current thing is absolutely and without question a small bit of brilliance. And all of his characters walk around with no light in their eyes. There is never a conclusion, there is never a summing up of the parts, there is always just more, things continue, however they may.
