Favourite Movie Scenes #2

Well, it's more a couple of scenes than a single scene, but they go well together. The last few minutes of Zodiac (2007).

I remember a colleague raving about this film when it came out. For whatever reason, I wasn't interested and I didn't go to see it.

Then, more recently, my favourite podcast Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World featured a few episodes about the Zodiac killer, and I found myself searching the film out. I was hugely impressed. Quentin Tarantino has put it in his list of the ten best films of the twenty-first century. High praise indeed. (My favourite film is Groundhog Day, but I think Pulp Fiction is the greatest and most accomplished film ever made.)

As wtih many of my favourite scenes, it's the crackling tension and understated drama between two characters that I love.

The musical choice at the very end of the film is also inspired. I'd never heard "Hurdy Gurdy Man" before, except in the film itself, but it's amazing how such an apparently innocuous song can sound utterly sinister in this context.

Somehow, this film seems to be about much more than a serial killer, or even an investigation into a serial killer, although it's hard to say exactly what that "much more" is.