A common rural village in 1954... Once a chain of horrible assault and murder cases targeting womenfolk occur in this secluded and peaceful countryside, the village gets terrified at strange panic called 'serial murdering incidents’ detective Paul has neighboring hoodlums assembled and urges them to confess to recent crimes, but fails to get any remarkable outcome.
By means of neighbor circumstances and personal connections, detective Paul, often believe in his own sense to identify who is bad or not, when he stares usual suspects in their faces. While a special investigation headquarters is installed, a Seoulite detective Seo Tae-yun(acted by Kim Sang-kyung) who came from Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to support the investigation of these cases. On the contrary to detective Park, Seo believes that every fact lies in documents and analyzes …show more content…
Nevertheless, there is only a firm belief that the principal of story is the criminal they have sought without any physical evidence. Finally, the cases come back to the original point again. While about 10 women became the victims, the criminal has been not yet caught up. Literally, the cases became the Memories of Murder like the title of this movie.
Director Bong Jun-ho said that his new film 'Memories of Murder' was originally inspired from a terrible image like 'a naked corpse that is ruthlessly murdered as found at a secluded and peaceful countryside in the afternoon under a very bright and warm sunlight.'
In most thrillers, the death seems only a game or puzzle play. In Memories of Murder, however, every death is soaked into woe and wrath as it is. Above all, it is surprising and even shuddering that this film takes its critical motive from a true story called 'A chain of rape-murder cases in Hwasung.' Who the hell is the criminal? Would he be amazed at his own wicked capability in front of this film
By means of neighbor circumstances and personal connections, detective Paul, often believe in his own sense to identify who is bad or not, when he stares usual suspects in their faces. While a special investigation headquarters is installed, a Seoulite detective Seo Tae-yun(acted by Kim Sang-kyung) who came from Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to support the investigation of these cases. On the contrary to detective Park, Seo believes that every fact lies in documents and analyzes …show more content…
Nevertheless, there is only a firm belief that the principal of story is the criminal they have sought without any physical evidence. Finally, the cases come back to the original point again. While about 10 women became the victims, the criminal has been not yet caught up. Literally, the cases became the Memories of Murder like the title of this movie.
Director Bong Jun-ho said that his new film 'Memories of Murder' was originally inspired from a terrible image like 'a naked corpse that is ruthlessly murdered as found at a secluded and peaceful countryside in the afternoon under a very bright and warm sunlight.'
In most thrillers, the death seems only a game or puzzle play. In Memories of Murder, however, every death is soaked into woe and wrath as it is. Above all, it is surprising and even shuddering that this film takes its critical motive from a true story called 'A chain of rape-murder cases in Hwasung.' Who the hell is the criminal? Would he be amazed at his own wicked capability in front of this film