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An empty parking lot is an empty parking lot.
Charlie Shackletons sly filmZodiac Killer Projectlives inside this conceptual limbo nebulously sinister and dryly hilarious all at once.
True to form, it demonstrates some of those very reasons.
Honestly, Netflixshouldbuy it, then pump it out and watch the views roll in.
So you eventually kind of give in to it.
In deconstructing a genre, Shackleton by extension deconstructs his own film.
As he laments his aborted project, he gives us enough of what the finished show would have contained.
Thats sort of the point.Zodiac Killer Projects real target isnt true-crime docs, but something grander, more societal.
The film explores how form conjures the illusion of consensus.
