David Fincher’s prop director loves Parker jotters. These men and women will not be acclaimed for what they do in this film. They will bang their heads against walls, doggedly investigate, and one will write books about the Zodiac murders. But they will not succeed, leading to one of two films I’m aware of where nearly every character has a jotter.
Ruffalo’s Tosche was the inspiration for Dirty Harry. He coached Steve McQueen for Bullitt, but here he is an investigator, and debilitating realist. While Roger Ebert (mostly) liked David Fincher, this film is more celebrated than most of his reviews of Fincher films. He candidly describes Fincher’s genius, even as it relates to Alien 3. He wrote about Se7en twice – with awe and respect – but incredible brevity compared to Zodiac. Perhaps because of the wildly different endings.
What does it say about a director, when his apex mountain, is about a serial killer who is never caught and the men whose lives were swept along and/or destroyed in the aftermath?
Jotter in Film 