Zodiac

There is an essential and perhaps constitutive gap between what we normally feel to be a conviction of truth and the evidence in support of it. To some extent, all evidence is somewhat circumstantial. How do we close that gap? How much certainty is enough to be "certain"?

One of the more provocative and interesting interpretations of Zodiac see the movie as dramatizing the arrival of the digital age as it encroaches upon and overwhelms the solid certainty, the contact, of analog. The solid certainties of hierarchies of truth and meaning give way to a digital flatness of equivalent 1's and 0's. The search for the killer, an ethical imperative and need for truth, marks this film as a tragedy, if only an epistemological one.

I did not write a "Best Movies of 2007" post, but this was the best movie of 2007.