![]() ![]() Although it hardly excuses his behavior, we can feel his character's frustration as he goes through all of this. Star Song Kang-ho delivers great work as the principal figure in the Hwaseong-based effort to bring the killer in. You really feel for Seo in particular, as he tries to ensure that things are done properly, clearly seeing the more than obvious problem in how the officers from Hwaseong are attempting to coerce false confessions. Park and his company have no idea what to do, not because they're specifically incompetent or malicious but because they just do not have the experience or even the scientific equipment needed to catch the killer (for example, when they find DNA evidence it has to be sent away for analysis, which obviously takes time which in turns winds up hurting their efforts to expedite capture). Based on the Hwaseong serial murders, the true case of what is believed to be South Korea's first serial killer, a murderer who at the time of the film's release had not been apprehended (though the killer, Lee Choon-jae would be caught in 2019 and confess to murdering fourteen people and raping over thirty), it presents a police department in way over its head. Memories Of Murder is remarkably well-directed. ![]() Eventually they start coming up with some patterns that fit the crimes but even armed with these new clues, it soon becomes clear that the killer is smart and faster than Park and the police and that it's entirely possible they simply won't be able to catch him. When Seo finds out that they've done this to a young and obviously mentally handicapped man from town named Baek Kwang-ho (Park No-shik), he figures out that it would have been impossible for him to have done it and he tries to set things right. Soon enough, Seo Tae-Yoon (Kim Sang-kyung), a more experienced homicide detective from Seoul, arrives to help out where he learns that Park and his crew are trying to coerce possible culprits into confessing. The crew really is just taken aback by the scope and scale of what they have to sort out, and initially things do not go well for them. When the department is tasked with investigating a series of brutal rape and murder reports occurring in the precinct's jurisdiction, Park immediately gets a bad feeling about this, assuming that there's likely more to it than his fellow officers realize.Īs the cops set out to investigate, a series of bumbling mistakes alter evidence and crime scenes, making their job much more difficult for themselves than they understand. ![]() He's perfectly average, though he isn't the most experienced man on the force. He's hardly the top detective on the department's roster, but he does okay. He works for the police department in South Korean town of Hwaseong in the Gyeonggi Province where he also lives. The story is set in the 1980s and revolves around Detective Park Doo-man ( Parasite star Song Kang-ho). While on the surface the film may sound like one of countless other pictures about cops tracking down a serial killer, the director's unique touch is all over the picture which helps to set it apart from the pack. Before Bong Joon-ho would take home an Oscar for Parasite, his second film, 2003's Memories Of Murder would put him on the map and quickly declare him one of the most interesting filmmakers on the international scene. ![]()
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