The Works of Zachary Robert Long
The mystery genre can largely be divided into three categories: Who did it?, How do it?, and Why do it? Each category requires the author or filmmaker to hide certain information from the audience: Se7en (1995) hides the who but gives the how and why. In Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) we…
Bills Hicks had a bit about how he didn’t understand what people saw in the beach. It’s where water meets land. What’s so special about that? But he had a change of heart on the matter while dealing with the cancer that eventually killed him. I get that. I never really liked the beach when…