Zodiac
It's bonkers it's been a "while" since I watched this cause I could watch it every day. Find this both funnier and scarier with every watch. On one hand, I had trouble sleeping last night thinking about how scary some of the shit in this movie is. On the other hand, I was cracking up at <PERSON> the entire second half. There's scenes played out similar to how the absent husband has been neglecting his wife and kids due to his addiction, but instead of drugs or alcohol or infidelity or some shit like that, it's solving the Zodiac lol... this makes the "you don't smoke do you?" "once... in high school..." even funnier. He's not at the bar he's at the library. The basement scene is the nerd version of a drug overdose. 471
It's funnier and more pathetic too considering what he's addicted to. Unlike similar characters in films like Close Encounters or JFK, <PERSON> isn't chasing some form of spiritual transcendence or exposing an entire government plotted conspiracy. Not to say solving the Zodiac is worthless, but he's losing his mind just to solve a few murders. It's crazy but at the same time sorta sweet? When you see him say "I need to know who he is" and "because no one else will" there's something really beautiful about it (and to be fair I get obsessed with it watching the movie myself). He's the ultimate true crime reddit obsessor, something that was not in fashion back in 2007, which can explain some of why upon release this was not properly appreciated as one of the greatest works of 21st century cinema the way it is today. Sort of in the way <PERSON> Unbreakable was ahead of the culture with the comic book/superhero genre, Zodiac was as well with the true crime/reddit dork milieu. I listened to the recent Blank Check ep on Zodiac and it hit me how true one thing they say about the perception and life of <PERSON>'s movies are. Basically, <PERSON> says that every time a new <PERSON> comes out, there's a huge crowd of people that are dissatisfied, saying "too cold." and then 5 years later it's "we agree he changed cinema that day right?" Aside from The Social Network, literally none of <PERSON>'s films are properly appreciated at release, even if they did well at the box office. I think that's pretty cool lol.
This is the best film ever made. 952