![]() Students rioting against their oppressive government are shown to have a direct negative impact on the case – blackouts and defence drills provide the killer with ideal cover of darkness, and military suppression of protests means that the police are left short-handed at a critical point in the investigation. They are clumsy and heavy-handed, and proven wrong at every turn. They don’t really care who is found guilty of the murders, or even who really did it, as long as they have some result to present to the journalists baying for blood. Quite aside from Detective Cho, and to a slightly lesser extent Park’s jackbooted methods of questioning suspects, their superiors in the police and the government they represent are shown to be ineffectual and corrupt time after time. Another scene sees the detectives break off their round of violent interrogation to watch a cop show and eat noodles with their suspect.īong uses the 1980s setting to criticise his country’s authoritarian past. He also plays on the incompetence of the Korean police force – one of the funniest scenes is the opening where every new cop or forensic scientist who arrives at a crime scene takes a tumble down a grassy bank, and then an unaware civilian drives a tractor straight over a crucial set of footprints. He creates such unique and weird characters, and derives comedy from their quirks and clashes with others. You’ll find it nigh-on impossible to find another example of police torture-based humour. The only leads the police have are tenuous – the murderer appears to prefer to strike when it rains, the same love song has been requested and played on the radio just before each incident, and the women killed were each wearing red.īong Joon-ho is a true master of macabre humour. Another murder is committed soon afterwards, and the investigators surmise that they are dealing with a serial killer from the almost identical state of the victims’ bodies, having been raped and tied up with their underwear. The film opens at a crime scene as Detective Park arrives to find a young woman’s body stuffed into a drainage pipe. ![]() But with pressure on from their superiors and the press, and little hard evidence to go on, hair-brained theories and fabrication soon come into play as the killer continues to evade capture. ![]() Detective Park (Song Kang-ho) follows his misguided instincts to a fault and is prone to jumping to bizarre conclusions Detective Cho (Kim Roe-ha) has a sadistic streak and is the first to resort to police torture to get a confession out of his suspects Detective Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) is a newly transferred big city cop who conducts his investigations completely by-the-book and according to procedure. In a re-telling of the police investigation into the gruesome Hwaseong Serial Murders committed between 19, we follow three mismatched detectives foiled by an elusive killer. Now the film has been digitally remastered in stunning 4k, you have the exciting opportunity to experience its dark majesty on the big screen or digitally at home. Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Ko Seo-hie, Park No-shik, Park Hae-ilīefore Bong Joon-ho received international attention with his 2006 monster-driven family drama The Host, and long before the game-changing awards juggernaut Parasite, he gave the world not only one of the finest murder-mysteries, but possibly one of the greatest Korean films of all time, Memories of Murder. Screenwriters: Bong Joon-ho, Shim Sung-bo
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