Film · 2003 · Crime thriller
Memories of Murder
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
2003
South Korea
★ 8.1 editorial score
Bong made a serial killer film in which the police are the problem: it is based on a real case, and rural Korea itself ends up looking like the suspect.
“Bong Joon-ho's masterful policier Memories Of Murder follows the investigation into Korean society's first serial killer, a methodical, elusive predator who raped and murdered 10 women within a two-kilometer radius...in the tradition of New Korean Cinema, which can shift tonal gears faster than a Maserati, Bong plays most of the events for broad, uproarious comedy while still managing a devastating undercurrent of sadness.”
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