Violence, a theatrical tool, used well.

Zodiac, a review.

Now, my wife is not a “fan” of scary movies, to say the absolute least, She hates them, physically i.e. meaning her body. I one the other hand love them. So you can see my frustration when it comes to choosing a movie for us to watch. To give her credit, she did, once, allow me the pleasure of watching one with her. For some god awful reason I chose to watch fear dot com. Not only is this perhaps the worst horror film of all time it is perhaps the worst movie made, ever. Well I had my shot and I feel I will never get my shot again.

I figure I have it made when I come across this movie called Zodiac. It had so many things going for it. A-list cast, one of my favorite directors and it’s about something that did happen or “real.” I even had people screen it for me to make sure it was not a horror film, and as it turns out its more like a dramatic thriller, something she could watch. YAY I thought we can watch a sudo-scarey movie.

Long story short we watched it. Now I should remind you that Zodiac is based on the events that circle around one of the worlds most famous serial killers. So one would assume someone dies, sure but when someone dies in a horror movie its more about the spectacular not the importance of the death more of the “how” not so much “why”, so sure some people need to die to lay the groundwork for the why which is in the case the more important factor. Well I feel bad now as I made my wife watch what even I can freely say was one of the most graphic and violent death/stabbing scene even I had ever scene. Oh, can’t win them all.

No spoilers aside this did end up being a great movie even my wife enjoyed. The kind of movie ones talks about after, over coffee. We decided, or I did, that those scenes, although perhaps a little too graphic, were need to establish that fact that this person was a stone hard killed capable of massive amounts of aggression. These one or two scenes did not have to be repeated over and over again to remind us of this. And we could just move on and watch the movie and not have to dwell on the killings so much as the who’s and why’s, and the people involved.