Memories of Murder

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Movie
German title Memories of Murder
Original title 살인 의 추억 (Salinui chueok)
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2003
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bong Joon-ho
script Bong Joon-ho ,
Kim Kwang-rim ,
Shim Sung-bo
production Cha Seoung-jae ,
Kim Moo-ryung ,
No Jong-yun ,
Lee Kang-bok
music Taro Iwashiro
camera Kim Hyeong-gyu
cut Kim Seon-min
occupation

Memories of Murder ( kor. : 살인 의 추억 , rome. : Salinui chueok) is a 2003 published thriller of the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho .

action

In 1986, when South Korea was ruled by the military dictatorship, several murders occurred in the province. The victims are young women who were wearing red clothing at the time of the crime. In addition, the murders always take place in heavy rain and, as a police officer finds out, always after a certain song requested by a listener was heard on the radio a few hours earlier. The local police commissioner Park Doo-man is taking on the case, he is supported by the special commissioner Seo Tae-yoon from Seoul .

The two investigators are fundamentally different: Park is intuitive, emotional and sometimes powerful; he also frequently tries to force confessions through brutal interrogation. Seo acts rationally, sensitively and works according to the latest investigation methods.

Park first arrests the underprivileged Baek Kwang-ho as a suspect and forces a confession from him, since Baek reports numerous details that only the killer can know. Seo still doubts his guilt; when the series of murders continues despite Baek's arrest, his innocence is proven. A second suspect also turns out to be innocent before the police come across a third suspect, Park Hyeon-gyu, via the radio station and the listener's request. The police want to use a DNA test to prove his guilt; furthermore it turns out that Baek was able to observe one of the murders in hiding. When the police want to bring Baek to a confrontation, he runs away scared and is run over by a train. The angry Seo confronts the suspect Park and tries to force him to confess when Detective Park arrives with the result of the DNA comparison. This shows that the third suspect is also innocent. The police have to let him go, the murders will not be solved.

The course of the investigation also leads to ruptures in the character of the commissioners, which brings about a certain rapprochement between the two. As Park becomes increasingly meek, remorseful at his failures, Seo becomes more and more emotionally involved in the case and eventually becomes ready for violence.

Years later, after Park had resigned from the police force and started a new job in a beverage distributor, a business trip takes him to the place where the first victim was found in the film. A schoolgirl approaches him and tells him that another man recently showed interest in the crime scene. When he asked what the man looked like, she replied: "Quite normal."

background

The plot of the film is based on real events that occurred between 1986 and 1991. The first serial killer in the history of South Korea murdered ten women within a radius of two kilometers in a particularly bestial manner and never left any traces on the scene. The oldest victim was 71 years old, the youngest 13. More than 3,000 suspects were questioned and at the end of the investigation 300,000 police officers were mobilized, but the perpetrator could not be caught for a long time. In September 2019, police announced that they had identified the killer. DNA traces led to a man who was already in prison for murder and who is said to have confessed to the crimes. The film was shot on the original location of the events and required more than a year of research.

Memories of Murder became South Korea's most successful film of 2003.

Awards

Reviews

The film received good reviews. Stephen Hunter wrote in the Washington Post that "every character [...] was brilliantly realized" and that what the director created was "quite extraordinary". Andreas R. Becker writes on film starts that Bong uses “non-genre elements” in this thriller, which has an “almost scandalous ending”. In doing so, the director is "deliberately setting himself apart from the classic Hollywood thriller". But this is not at the expense of the tension, but increases it. Cinema draws the conclusion: "Dark and macabre: the" Zodiac "of South Korea!" Robert Cherkowski wrote in the film magazine Schnitt that the film has an oppressive subject matter, but that it is "an impeccably staged, flawless feel-good film". Filmdienst judges that the "Thriller, through its substructures, goes far beyond genre".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Memories of Murder . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 856 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Jen Yamato: Director Bong Joon Ho reacts to the ID of alleged 'Memories of Murder' serial killer. In: Los Angeles Times. September 30, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Charles Barfield: The Real-Life Killer That Inspired Bong Joon-ho's 'Memories Of Murder' Has Reportedly Been Identified. In: The Playlist. September 18, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  4. ^ Charles Barfield: Bong Joon-Ho Explains His "Complicated" Feelings Surrounding News That The 'Memories Of Murder' Killer Has Been Identified. In: The Playlist. October 1, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stephen Hunter, 'Memories of Murder': From Korea, a True Original . The Washington Post, July 29, 2005.
  6. ^ Review: Memories of Murder on filmstarts.de. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ Cinema : Memories of Murder . Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ Robert Cherkowski: Flawless and flawless . Cut , accessed July 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ Filmdienst : Silberlinge 2006 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 739 kB). Retrieved July 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmdienst.de