The Witness (film)

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Movie
German title The Witness
Original title Mokgyeokja ( 목격자 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2018
length 111 minutes
Rod
Director Jo Kyu-jang
script Lee Young-jong
music Mok Yeong-jin
camera Yu Eok
occupation

The Witness (Original title: Mokgyeokja ) is a South Korean film from 2018. Directed by Jo Kyu-jang . Lee Sung-min and Kim Sang-ho play the leading roles.

action

When Sang-hoon comes home one night after drinking with his colleagues, he witnesses a murder. From the window of his apartment he sees someone hitting a woman with a hammer. Suddenly his wife turns on the light. Hoping that the murderer hadn't noticed, he quickly switched it off again and didn't say anything to his wife. As he continues to look out the window, he sees the murderer looking at his window.

The police are looking for witnesses, but nobody answers. Sang-hoon hopes that if he doesn't tell the police, the killer will leave his family alone. But the killer hangs around the apartment and watches the potential witnesses. The police are meanwhile in the dark, the media are reporting on the murder in an apartment area without witnesses. The residents fear for the reputation of the residential area and a drop in the price of the apartments and are therefore petitioning against the police investigation.

Another witness, who saw the murder and met Sang-hoon in the elevator the night before, asked him to go to the police together. She receives strange calls and sees them as the only way out. But Sang-hoon refuses. Later the neighbor is also murdered. Sang-hoon sees her corpse and barely escapes the killer. Despite the police investigations, Sang-hoon stands firm and says nothing. But suddenly the police arrest the wrong killer. There is also a third witness that Sang-hoon also wants to protect.

In the end, he tells the police what he knows. But during this time the murderer visits his family, wife and daughter. You can barely escape. When Sang-hoon and other residents appear, the perpetrator flees into a forest. Sang-hoon follows him and can catch him. It comes to a fight that is suddenly interrupted by a landslide. The perpetrator is seriously injured. After the landslide, Sang-hoon sees numerous bodies. Victim of the perpetrator who buried them in the forest.

Ultimately, the family moves out of the apartment complex.

reception

The Witness opened in South Korean cinemas on August 15, 2018 and reached over 2.5 million admissions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Witness (2018). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Korean Film Council, accessed April 25, 2019 .