Memories Of Murder
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1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.
During that span of time, 10 women between the ages of 14 to 71 were found raped and murdered in Gyeonggi province. One of the murders was later determined to be a copycat killing, but the trail ran cold for nearly 30 years before the statute of limitations expired on the remaining crimes.
That is until earlier this month, when Korean authorities announced that a DNA match had been made linking evidence from some of the crime scenes to a suspect already behind bars. According to South Korean media reports, he is a 56-year-old man serving a life sentence for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister-in-law.
Parents need to know that Memories of Murder is a gripping, but violent Korean crime drama, directed by Bong Joon-ho, with adult themes and images that could potentially upset viewers. There are few positive messages or role models, with even the detectives -- headed up by Detective Park Doo-man (Kang-ho Song) -- who are chasing a violent murderer and rapist, resorting to reprehensible acts. These include forcing statements out of potential suspects with violence and torture, one of whom is disabled. There are a number of upsetting images of female corpses, sometimes covered in blood. Some of the crimes themselves are depicted, including women being gagged and strangled. The nature of the crimes is openly discussed, and a scene in a morgue includes items being recovered from inside the dead victim's body. There is a graphic shot of a man being hit and killed by a train and one man stabs another in the leg during a bar fight. Two characters are seen having sex, but the camera remains behind them and there is no nudity. In another scene, a man is shown masturbating in a public place, over women's underwear. The language is strong, with several uses of \"f--k\" and explicit threats such as \"cut your d--k off.\" The derogatory term \"retarded\" is also used. People can be seen smoking and drinking throughout the film, and in one sequence a man is so drunk he seems to pass out before waking up and throwing up.
MEMORIES OF MURDER is set in a small Korean province in 1986, where multiple women are found killed. Detective Park Doo-man (Kang-ho Song) is heading up the investigation, and is joined by Detective Seo Tae-yoon (Kim Sang-kyung) to help find the elusive murderer. But the brutality extends into the investigation itself, as the desperation of the police force sees them torturing potential suspects as they strive tirelessly to find the killer -- before he strikes again.
Two weeks before Bong attended the 57th New York Film Festival for a screening of Parasite and a discussion of his work, the Hwaseong killer was caught. Lee Chun-jae was serving a life sentence for raping and killing his sister-in-law when DNA tests revealed his sample to have matched those found in four of the nine victims. He then confessed to all the known Hwaseong murders, and also to five other similar crimes in other cities.
MEMORIES OF MURDER tells the harrowing true story of the hunt for a sadistic serial rapist and murderer terrorizing a small province in 1980s South Korea. Marking the first of many successful collaborations between four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho and leading man Song Kang Ho, the film follows the paths of three increasingly desperate detectives as they attempt to decipher the violent mind of a killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
Memories of Murder tells the harrowing true story of the hunt for a sadistic serial rapist and murderer terrorizing a small province in 1980s South Korea. Marking the first of many successful collaborations between four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho and leading man Song Kang Ho, the film follows the paths of three increasingly desperate detectives as they attempt to decipher the violent mind of a killer in a futile effort to solve the case. Now, seventeen years after its initial release, and a year after the real culprit was identified, this cult classic takes its place as a modern masterpiece.
It's easy to see why. Bong's excellent direction and script, combined with the public's seemingly endless lust for true crime stories, made Memories of Murder a sure-fire hit. Starting in 1986, this period piece (the film came out in 2003) follows a group of small-town detectives that are definitely over their heads when the bodies of ravaged women start piling up. All were wearing red, all were murdered while it was raining, and later on, we learn that a specific song was requested via postcard at the nearest radio station.
While the killer in Memories of Murder is methodical, calculating and restrained, the local police assigned to catching him are precisely the opposite. Park Doo-Man (Bong regular Song Kang Ho) is the bumbling detective leading the investigation. He claims that he has the eyes of a shaman, able to pierce the soul and establish guilt. Unfortunately, he is often wrong. Park is also not above beating confessions out witnesses and planting evidence. His partner, Jo Yong-Gu (Kim Roe Ha) is little more than hotheaded thug who does little else than stomp on people during interrogations, using a special cover on his boot to protect his footwear from blood. After more girls turn up murdered, Inspector Seo Tae-Yoon (Kim Sang Kyung) is sent from Seoul to assist the flailing local force. And while Seo is a better cop than Park, setting up a rivalry between the two men, a shadow of violence rests under his calm veneer.
Memories of Murder is an emotional tightrope, especially as Bong nimbly shifts from abject horror to outright comedy. Consider an early scene when Park is trying to protect a crime scene. While a girl lies murdered in a rice paddy, a tractor runs over key evidence. Meanwhile, the police chief and others slide down on their butts as they descend from the road to the field. Park and his associates bumble one lead after another, a ridiculous comedy of errors about the fallibility of mankind. Yet, laughs get stuck in throats as one woman after another is murdered.
Our second suspect is caught masturbating at the scene of one of the murders, but was found to be engaging in a sexual fantasy, not murder. While the methods used by the detectives here are essentially the same, a fight breaks out between Park and Seo after missing on another suspect, and they fail to stop another murder because of it.
Hwaseong itself is painted as preoccupied and struggling to keep up with its urbanization, contrasting smog-releasing power plants with vast pastoral landscapes. Making the bold choice to shoot speculative lead-ups to the murders, we adopt the POV of the killer and see him jump out of trees and rise out of the fields like a video game nightmare. Similar to how the house in Bong's Oscar-winning Parasite represents a series of class conflicts in both its sleek architecture and below-ground squalor, the threat in Memories of Murder is embedded into the setting: how the most edenic of locales hold unknown terror.
Director Bong Joon-Ho, who has a perfectly good track record including directing Barking Dogs Never Bite and scripting Phantom: The Submarine, is understood to have read extensively on Jack The Ripper, including the From Hell graphic novel before tackling Memories with screenwriters Kim Kwang-Rim and Shim Seong-Bo. The result is the retelling of a well-known series of sex murders - a great rarity in Korea - with grit, atmosphere and dramatic panache.
Bong develops an atmosphere which allows him to approach the murders from several sides. Sometimes the police are simply greeted with a cold corpse, other times the camera sits premeditatedly in the trees waiting for a rainy night attack. On-screen violence is largely absent and the suspense is at its strongest when the film follows the police up a number of blind alleys and false trails.
The serial killer terrorized South Korea in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, when at least 10 women between the ages of 14 and 71 were raped and murdered in Hwaseong, a city with large rural areas about 46 kilometers (29 miles) southwest of the capital Seoul. The killer, who gagged and bound his victims, is sometimes compared to the Zodiac Killer in the U.S.
But even though a suspect has now been identified, he cannot be prosecuted because there was a 15-year statute of limitations for first-degree murder at the time of the killings. It was increased to 25 years in 2007 and finally lifted in 2015, but it is not retroactive.
Zodiac is David Fincher's exploration of the real-life Zodiac Killer murders in the San Francisco area in the 1970s. Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder deals with a serial killer case from South Korea in the 1980s. Both films are brilliant, but which one is the best
The Pitch: Loosely based on the string of murders in the '80s committed by Korea's first confirmed serial killer, \"Memories of Murder\" was the crime thriller that put Bong Joon-ho on the map. Bong's frequent collaborator Song Kang-ho stars as an inept country detective who is first assigned to the case of two women who are found raped and murdered, but as the bodies start to pile up, it becomes clear that he's out of his depth. An experienced detective from Seoul (Kim Sang-kyung) is brought in, and though Song's Park Doo-man naturally butts head with Kim's by-the-books Seo Tae-yoon, the case and its rapidly cooling trail of evidence starts to drastically change the both of them.
In Memories, Song portrays rural police detective Park Doo-man, who is investigating a series of rape-murders. Taking place in 1986, under martial law at the twilight of the Fifth Republic of Korea, the film recounts the notorious case of a serial rapist-killer with close attention to historical detail. 59ce067264
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