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In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
In 1986, 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. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same &quot;modus-operandi&quot;, the detectives find leads of the assassin.
(Minor spoilers below) The first thing I noticed in Bong Joon- ho&#39;s newest film is the blocking and cinematography. Every dialogue scene is essentially blocked and shot perfectly, cutting only when necessary and keeping all of the relevant information clear in every shot. Beyond that, however, lies characters that are all far from perfect, but always believable and absorbing.<br/><br/>Memories of Murder is essentially a crime thriller/drama with comedic elements and a bit of social commentary. But do not go into this expecting it to be a comedy thriller, because as the characters get more and more serious about the case, so does the film. In fact, the comedic elements essentially stop after the first hour or so.<br/><br/>The first time the two main characters meet, there is immediately a conflict between them. Basically the conflict between them is each of their methods for finding the killer; one of them tries to brute force a confession from a possible suspect and will investigate simply based on word of mouth, while the other sticks to the documents and the facts. This killer basically starts out as means for competition between the two of them, each one trying to find the killer through their own methods. But as they become more and more absorbed with the case, they don&#39;t necessarily become friends, but both of them start working towards a common goal, both of them using each other&#39;s methods.<br/><br/>But this film is more than just a 2 way character study. It is also a commentary on what cops are allowed to get away with because of their power. 2 of the cops in this film are incredibly violent and short tempered, and not very smart. The characters pretty much get away with torturing innocent people (and almost killing one), trying to put an innocent man in jail, and inciting one extremely violent bar fight. While it may not be as bad as the criminal they are chasing, those are things most people would go to prison for if they were not cops. We put a lot of our trust in the police, but what we don&#39;t realize is that sometimes the people they give the power to, may not be the ones that deserve it.<br/><br/>But hands down, the greatest part of this film is the overwhelming amount of tension it builds. This movie starts chugging along after the first murder (which occurs in the first few minutes) and gains momentum for the rest of the film, building to one of the most intense climaxes I have ever seen. As the characters become obsessed with the case, so do you. Every suspect is thoroughly examined not only by the characters, but by the viewer. Every possibility, every clue, building to one of the most immersive and captivating films I have ever seen.<br/><br/>I will not spoil the end in this review, but I will say it was basically the perfect way to cap this film off.
Bong Joon-Ho is a director that I knew a little about back in 2006 when I saw his wildly entertaining monster movie the Host. I had only seen that one film from him, but kept him in mind as someone good in the Korean film world (that is someone not Chanwook Park or Kim Ki-Duk). With this film, Memories of Murder, he&#39;s more than that now. As one goes through this tight murder mystery, based more on character and on the frustration of a clear pattern of a killer who makes it just a little too hard for the detectives to track down, you forget about the world around you or the time and just focus in on this story, of the grim line that delineates how to find a serial killer. Maybe it&#39;s because Joon-Ho knew that he was making a movie about the first ever serial killer in South Korea that he had to make it this way, about clash between inexperience and professionalism and right and wrong that&#39;s demonstrated here.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not an action movie, but a character study, as non-conventional in its outcome or in its style as something like Fincher&#39;s films Se7en and Zodiac (for the former there&#39;s even so much as a specific shot and scene that is lovingly ripped-off, and the latter, well, just see the results of the case to know what I mean). It&#39;s the story of a series of rape/murders in a rural area of South Korea during a time of military dictatorship (watch out those &#39;citizen&#39; alarms!), where women are being murdered and all in a pattern: wearing a red item of clothing, when it&#39;s raining, and when a specific and *sad* song is requested and played on the radio. While the local detectives Park Doo-Man and Cho Yong-koo try and shake down a confession out of a couple of suspects, one obviously mentally retarded, a seemingly hot-shot cop out of Seoul, Seo Tae-Yoon, comes in to help with the investigation and practically takes it over since he is, frankly, best at the job. This is not without some protest from the other detectives, of course, who feel threatened by their means of (nasty) interrogation to get a confession.<br/><br/>One of the things that marks this as a departure from a lot of familiar serial killer mystery movies in America is the nature of the characters and how they relate to each other. Take the interrogation scenes early on: would you see in a typical movie an interrogation of a suspect where the suspect starts to go along with the detectives&#39; premise just to get the hell out of the room? It&#39;s all about the details in the way the scenes are played out, how specifically and different Song and Kim play their roles, even as they&#39;re in the same profession and wanting the same end goal.<br/><br/>Bong Joon-Ho also gives actors in small parts some fantastic scenes, such as the actor playing the mentally challenged man, or even the woman who somehow escaped the murderer&#39;s grasp but didn&#39;t see his face. And we get a real sense of these characters as having real conflicts and lives outside of this- sometimes with humor like Park&#39;s attempt to find a &quot;hairless man&quot; suspect at a sauna, or with some dark and violent ways like detective Cho who meets a nasty fate after a bar fight. Barely anyone is just two-dimensional, and even the main suspect-killer in the second half plays his blank-faced part perfectly.<br/><br/>The characters all work, and the scenario is played out in a superior style (or if nothing else than with efficiency and a clear eye for details in the case arising naturally and without unnecessary melodrama), and on top of this the film looks gorgeous. Joon-Ho and his DP shoot and shoot away, getting some fantastic shots in these fields of the &#39;Boondocks&#39; where the detectives find the bodies, or in the rain, or in a short burst in slow-motion that is just the right touch. A similar approach to artistry could be found in the Host, where an attention to light and dark and how to paint black and night scenes don&#39;t mare anything with the story itself. Particularly haunting is how he films the glimpses of the killer&#39;s-scenes-at-work, or in that masterful climax at the railroad tracks at the tunnel. By the end of the film, we don&#39;t know for sure if it&#39;s all entirely the truth and the whole truth (based on a true case), but it attains a hyper-reality that one can&#39;t shake off once it ends. It&#39;s a chilling tale that needs to be told, about the dire straits of breaking ground and not everything falling in to place.
What distinguishes Memories of Murder, setting it apart from rank-and-file thrillers, is its singular mix of gallows humor and unnerving solemnity.
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