MEMORIES OF MURDER
Memories of Murder is such a taut, effective thriller it's a shame you have to read subtitles to gauge just how good a movie it is. A perplexing film in many ways - and one that must play quite differently to South Korean audiences, who are familiar with the unsolved murder case - Memories is almost too much of a good thing in the variety and complexity of its director's sensibility.
Joon-ho Bong lets viewers fall into the cops' frustrations, but these detectives are dogged, not downtrodden.
A much better movie than the more recent and more heralded "Mother", another movie about a killer. It plays as quite a refreshing take on this style, and, except for the heavy handed ending, proves to be an enjoyable and provocative flick, definitely worth seeking out. Bong Joon-ho uses a real Korean serial killer story as the basis for this always absorbing, terribly ironic and tragically hilarious crime drama that is both an intelligent social satire and a sharp political commentary, and he never ceases to surprise us until the very last shot.
A murder chronicle that engulfs you into its own mystique. A richly layered film with great cinematic devices, satirical and distant at first, desperate, elusive and suspenseful by the end. Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder.
Their crude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found. The victims are all beautiful young women whose bodies have been found raped and strangled in local fields and ditches. The initial agents who have been put on the case are two incompetent bunglers - one a dropout from college, the other a dropout from high school - who seem to have gleaned the majority of their investigative techniques from cheesy TV crime dramas.
Enter Seo Tae-yoon, a forensic investigator from Seoul, who wrests control from the locals and brings some big-city know-how to the case. Given the grim subject matter at hand, it's amazing just how funny so much of this movie turns out to be.
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Blessed with a sly sardonic humor and a willingness to make fun of its characters even while evincing a great deal of affection for them, "Memories of Murder" plays less like a conventional cop movie and more like a regional comedy filled with rich insights into the subtle truths of human nature. The relationship between Seo, the investigator from Seoul, and Park Doo-man, the more rational of the two local officers, is intriguing and complex, as we watch them bicker and brawl and engage in petty power struggles, while slowly coming to realize that each has something of value to teach the other if only they can set aside their egos long enough to listen.
Saddled with even-then antiquated technologies, Seo and Park are forced to rely on good old investigative footwork and informed intuition to try and solve the case.
There are strong performances by one and all, and a fine sense of atmosphere in the setting. Those looking for a neatly tied-up resolution to the case may find themselves disappointed at movie's end. But the rich rewards of setting and character should be compensation enough. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. Season 7 Black Lightning: Season 2 DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 Doctor Who: Seo tries to follow Hyeon-gyu, but he dozes off and misses his chance.
That night, Park's wife walks through the forest, watched by an unknown figure in the shadows, but a younger girl passes by and she is captured and killed instead. The next morning, her body is discovered.
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When Seo sees a bandaid on her waist, he recognizes her as the same school girl that he met on account of the murders and personalized with. Enraged at the loss of his new friend, Seo's frustrations finally flow over and he snaps. He attacks Hyeon-gyu, but Park brings documents from America regarding the semen sample. However, the papers state the sample does not match Hyeon-gyu's DNA.
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Seo decides to ignore the documents and chooses to believe Hyeon-gyu is the murderer. Seo attempts to shoot the suspect, but Park stops him and lets Hyeon-gyu go.
In the end, the crimes remain unsolved. While visiting the crime scene years later in , Park Doo-man, now a businessman, learns from a little girl that the scene had recently been visited by another, unknown man, with a 'nondescript' face. The little girl had asked the man why he was looking at the ditch, and was told that he was reminiscing about something he had done there a long time ago. Park Doo-man, apparently having an epiphany , looks directly at the screen; he uses his same method by making eye contact with the audience to search for or actually find the eyes of the killer sitting among them.
Memories of Murder was well received by both critics and audiences. The film won the South Korean film industry's Grand Bell Awards for best film, while Bong Joon-ho and Song Kang-ho won the awards for best director and best leading actor respectively. By the end of the film's domestic run it had been seen by 5,, people, [3] making it the most watched film during the year in South Korea.
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While it was eventually outgained by Silmido , which was released in the same year, most of Silmido' s audience did not see it until At the end of the film's run, Memories of Murder was also the fourth most viewed film of all time in the country, after Shiri , Friend and Joint Security Area. The commercial success of the film has been credited as saving one of its production companies, Sidus Pictures , from bankruptcy.
While a total body count was never mentioned in the film, a total of 10 similar murders were committed in the Hwaseong area between October and April Some of the details of the murders, such as the killer gagging the women with their underwear, were also taken from the case. After the ninth murder, DNA evidence was sent to Japan unlike the film, where it was sent to America for analysis, but the results did not correspond with the suspects.
As in the film, the actual murderer has not been caught. As the case was growing closer to reaching the statute of limitations , South Korea's leading Uri Party sought to amend the law to give the prosecutors more time to find the murderer. However, in the Statute of Limitation was reached.
Screenwriter Kim Eun-hee Sign , Phantom was attached to a television adaptation with the working title Signal , which aired on tvN in Gap-dong , which aired on tvN in , was also loosely inspired by the film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the American television film, see Memories of Murder film.
In a small Korean province in , three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Memories of Murder is a South Korean crime-drama film co-written and directed by Bong Joon-ho. It is based on the true story of Korea's first serial murders.
CJ Entertainment Sidus Pictures. Edit Cast Credited cast: Detective Park Doo-man Sang-kyung Kim Detective Seo Tae-yoon Roe-ha Kim Detective Cho Yong-koo Jae-ho Song Officer Kwon Kwi-ok No-shik Park Baek Kwang-ho Hae-il Park Park Hyeon-gyu Mi-seon Jeon Kwok Seol-yung Young-hwa Seo Eon Deok-nyeo Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Cop Dressed as Woman Hyeon-gi Choi Doo-man's Father Deok-jae Jo Edit Storyline In , in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know?
Goofs When Detective Seo Tae-Yoon's gun is tossed away from his hands by Park Hyeon-gyu, the gun is seen landing to the left of the train tracks from the camera's point of view. Moments later, when the detective returns to pick it up, the gun is seen lying on the train tracks itself. Quotes Detective Park Doo-Man: Fuck, I don't know. Therefore important scenes for the development of the story are missing, such as when the detectives are informed about the possibility of a DNA analysis of sperm found on one of the victim's clothes and that the sample has to be sent abroad because the required equipment is not in Korea.
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