Got to see this in the cinema. It's still absolutely incredible!
This is such an astonishing, multifaceted examination of what the Zodiac Killer meant, for society and for the people he affected, and it helps too that the case is genuinely fascinating from start to finish. I wonder if this movie was perhaps ahead of its time, because if it dropped in 2025, the true crime girlies would eat this up like crazy.
Every time I watch this, I find…
Not to be mean but this shit was so ass. There's definitely the bones of something good somewhere in here, but it doesn't help the movie that it is also ass.
This movie is so fun, but it's also got such a strong handle on exactly the experience it wants to be. Everything in this movie's visual language is so rich with emotional purpose, be it anxiety, discomfort, or even loneliness. So often, Cooper is abandoned within the frame, looking on at others, forever disconnected, almost cruelly, by the movie itself.
My main issue with Trap is more so an issue I have with Shyamalan's consistent attitude towards abuse and mental…
Man, what an intensely strange movie. I don't know if I liked it.
On the one hand, it possesses the same dreamlike, meandering quality I've loved in previous Alex Garland movies. As opposed to a concrete plot, characters are left to wander between encounters, vignettes of a conflict spanning much farther beyond the scope of this film. It makes for a unique experience that few directors would have the confidence to go for, and I appreciate it for that.
However,…
