Major kudos for the script for not pulling out a Psycho moment. There is no scene where someone from the police would sit everyone down in the room and explain in a blunt fashion what made Edward Miller what he is now and what drew him to killing. Thankfully, the movie only hints at what could've occurred that made him hate women with an almost agonizing fervor.
The story is about the regular hunter and the hunted, where the police just react to Miller's killings while trying to figure out his identity with the most rudimentary criminal profiling techniques from the 1950s.
With very misguided insinuations that apparently petty misdemeanors can't escalate to outright murder without somehow being tracked by the police. If only the boomers knew. What they did know is how to moralize with incredibly obvious soapbox speeches about how many mentally ill people just slip through the cracks of the system and the government would rather shoot them all instead of addressing the bigger issue.
Arthur Franz is doing a proficient job with his character. Others, not so much. Most of the police staff just read their lines in either a monotone or slightly concerned voice, looking at bodies all over 1950s San Francisco.
The story is about the regular hunter and the hunted, where the police just react to Miller's killings while trying to figure out his identity with the most rudimentary criminal profiling techniques from the 1950s.
With very misguided insinuations that apparently petty misdemeanors can't escalate to outright murder without somehow being tracked by the police. If only the boomers knew. What they did know is how to moralize with incredibly obvious soapbox speeches about how many mentally ill people just slip through the cracks of the system and the government would rather shoot them all instead of addressing the bigger issue.
Arthur Franz is doing a proficient job with his character. Others, not so much. Most of the police staff just read their lines in either a monotone or slightly concerned voice, looking at bodies all over 1950s San Francisco.