I'm numb

Peter 2022-03-22 09:01:10

First of all, this is not a high IQ movie at all, whether it is a murderer, a reporter or a police detective. The film tells more about "persistence"-the police detectives and reporters who came into contact with this case were tortured very painfully by the murderer, but at the same time it aroused their strong "curiosity" and made them suffer. After more than 20 years of hard pursuit, my life has been completely changed because of this.
It didn't take long before the film started that the murderer was not a criminal with high intelligence who wanted to provoke society, but just a pervert. However, hope appeared again and again, and again and again failed. As time went by, the news that made a sensation in the society became uninterested. There were fewer and fewer people around the cartoonist, and the cartoonist became more and more lonely when investigating the case; of course, the more this is the case, the more he can show his perseverance. .
Why are you so persistent? In fact, the murderer is not a murderer who makes people afraid of hearing his name, and his methods are not clever. But he had no motive for committing the crime, so it was impossible to investigate. In the film, several attempts were made to find the pattern of the murderer's crimes, but none of them were foreshadowing, and they were not mentioned later. Several magical characters also appeared to tell police detectives and reporters about the murderer, but it was useless.
When I first found Leigh, all the details were in line, only the handwriting could not be determined. But it was the handwriting that brought the whole case to a deadlock (the United States is really a country with strict laws... It's just that this rigor is not built on rigorous premises). Later, several suspects appeared, and they were unable to continue because there was no direct evidence. When the cartoonist finds more details, the detective can only say, write it into a book. There is no legal way, so let the public opinion think of a way. Sure enough, the survivor who saw the murderer's face came back and identified the murderer-I was speechless when I saw it-that's it, why didn't you let the two patrols recognize the face when you doubted Leigh?
The most troublesome thing is that there are too many names and place names, and many of them are very close; the time is also very chaotic, and several years, months and days are intertwined. This made me completely ignorant of the names, place names, and logical reasoning in the dialogue when I saw later. In other words, I don’t understand at all—is this the so-called "high IQ"?

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  • Robert Graysmith: Dave, he made a mistake! The birthday was the one time that he was weak, the one time he gave something away!

    Dave Toschi: Robert...

    Robert Graysmith: It's Arthur Leigh Allen!

    Dave Toschi: Where did you get that name?

    Robert Graysmith: December 18th. He called the Belli's house. "I have to kill. Today is my birthday." It was his birthday. Arthur Leigh Allen was born on December 18th.

    Dave Toschi: Get in here.

  • Cecilia Shepard: Someone else is here.

    Bryan Hartnell: It is a public park.

    Cecilia Shepard: I think he's watching us.

    Bryan Hartnell: Well, we're very good looking.

    Cecilia Shepard: Where'd he go? He went behind that tree.

    Bryan Hartnell: All right, so he's taking a leak.

    Cecilia Shepard: He's coming towards us. Oh my god, he has a gun!