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Memories of Murder (Korean: 살인의 추억; RR: Sarinui Chueok) is a 2003 South Korean crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, from a screenplay by Bong and Shim Sung-bo, and based on the 1996 play Come and See.
Me by Kim Kwang Rim. Starring Song Kang Ho and Kim Sang Kyung.
In the film, detectives Park Do-man (Song) and Seo Tae-yeon (Kim) lead an investigation into a series of rapes and murders that occurred in Hwaseong in the late 1980s.
Development of the film was confirmed in September 2002, after CJ Entertainment purchased the rights to Kim's play, which is loosely based on the first confirmed serial killings in South Korea.
It is also inspired by detective fiction and elements from Bong's personal life. Principal photography took place throughout South Korea, including Gangseong Province, Haenam Province, and Jinju Province.
Murder Memories was first released theatrically in South Korea on May 2, 2003 by CJ Entertainment.
The film received critical acclaim, with praise given to the film's screenplay, Bong's direction, the actors' performances (particularly Song's), the tone, and the editing.
The film received numerous awards and nominations, and is widely considered one of the best East Asian films of all time
In October 1986, two women were found murdered and raped on the outskirts of a small town. Local detective Park Do-man, who has never dealt with such a serious case before, is extremely overwhelmed – the evidence has been collected improperly,
the police's investigation methods are suspect, and their forensic technology is almost non-existent.
Park claims to have a way to identify suspects by visual contact.
He questions the mentally disabled boy, Baek Kwang Ho, because he used to follow one of the victims around town. Park's partner Cho overrides Baek's confessions.
Seo Tae-yeon, a detective from Seoul with more scientific training in crime scene analysis, volunteered to help them.
But his and Park's methods clash. Seo decides that Baek is too weak and afraid to commit such a complicated crime,
and after studying the crime reports closely, deduces that the killer only strikes on rainy nights and targets women wearing red.
Inspector Kwon, a diligent but little-known police officer, also determines that the same mysterious song is requested on the local radio station on the night of every crime. Despite being watched, the killer eludes them the next rainy night and kills a woman near a gypsum mine.
The next night, Park, Cho, and Seo monitor the crime scene and interrupt a man masturbating there.
After a chase, they arrested him, believing him to be the killer
. But even though they beat him, his impromptu "confession" never fits the details of the crime. He mentioned a mysterious figure emerging from the outbuildings of a local school;
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This fits with the story told to Siu by two local schoolgirls on the night of the recent murder.
Seo uses the story to find the killer's only surviving victim.
She tells him details that do not include the man who was arrested at the crime scene. Park and Seo fight when the man is released, but when the killer strikes again,
they agree to work together. Their investigation leads them to Hyun Gyu, a clerk at a gypsum factory.
Seo points out that Hyun-gyu's hands are as soft as the survivor described, but they have no other evidence to go on.
Listening to Pike's "confession" again, they realize that he saw one of the murders as it was happening.
They go to the restaurant run by Baek's father, where they encounter a drunk Cho, who has been arrested by the police for beating Hyun Gyu.
When other patrons mock the police for not solving the crime, Cho incites a fight. Bayek stabs him in the leg with a rusty nail and then runs away.
Park and Seo chase him, but before they can find out what he knows, a frightened Baek stumbles into a passing train and is killed.
Park feels guilty when Cho's leg contracts tetanus and has to be amputated. A forensic pathologist discovers the latest victim's semen, and Seo arranges for the sample to be sent to the United States for a DNA test that will confirm whether Hyun-gyu is the killer.
The next rainy night, Seo loses track of Hyeon-gyu while on surveillance and one of the schoolgirls Seo befriends is the next victim. Enraged, he attacks Seo Hyeon-gyu the next day. Park interrupts the DNA test results. It's inconclusive - Hyeong-gyu has neither been confirmed nor ruled out as a suspect.
Seo tries to shoot Hyeon-gyu anyway but Park stops him and allows Hyeon-gyu to leave.
In 2003, the crimes remained unsolved and Park was now a father and businessman.
He passes the first crime scene and stops to see where the first victim was found.
A young girl tells him about a man she saw there before who said he remembered something he did there a long time ago. Park asks the girl what the man looks like, and she tells him that he looks very ordinary.
Park shook and posed for the camera.
On September 9, 2002, Bong announced the start of filming at a press conference held at the Kumho Art Museum.[5] During the conference, Bong touched on the difficulties of filming the film, saying,
“Although they avoided the site of the Hwaseong accident during filming, this was done carefully because the families of the victims of the real cases are still alive.
” In an interview with the South Korean newspaper Hankuk Ilbo in August 2002, regarding the motivation behind making the film, he replied that as a fan of detective fiction he "aimed to portray horror that had not yet been revealed through emotions." "For the unparalleled notions of picturesque landscapes and horrific bodies" combined with the constraints of the times
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. The atmosphere of conflict and elements of investigation through the use of FM radio were borrowed from the play Come to See Me, and the script was written based on real case reports of the incident as well as to personal interviews with the detective involved in the crime case.
The film also aims to reflect his personal thoughts on the domestic box office failure of his previous work, Barking Dogs Never Bite, which he described as "a census of personal interests".
Filming took place in Gangseong County, South Jeolla Province and the reed field scene in Haenam County, South Jeolla Province was shot with cinematography by Kim Hyung-ko. The tunnel scenes were filmed in the Jokbong Tunnel located in Jinju.
The production team initially contacted several famous Japanese composers such as Joe Hisaishi, but tried to find suitable music that "would not overpower the film", and later found Taro Iwashiro. Bong and Iwashiro met each other on two occasions to exchange ideas in 10-hour meetings in Japan and South Korea respectively.
Initially over 20 demo tapes were sent to Bong, with some modifications in response to Bong's requests.
To reflect the empty spaces intentionally placed on the screens in the film's frames as well as information lost over time, the music was composed with "almost continuous, yet almost discrete" rhythms.
The style of the music was also required to be realistic and contain themes of memory of the era and murder.
Within a year of its debut, Memories of Murder was received as a cult film. Later in the decade, it was praised by many international publications, and referred to as one of the best crime films of the 21st century and one of the greatest Korean films of all time. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of reviews from 80 critics were positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10.
The site's consensus states: "Mixing the familiar crime genre with social satire and comedy, Memories of Murder captures the intense human despair of its main characters." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the film a score of 82 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "Memories of Murder is a taut, effective thriller, and it's a shame you have to read the subtitles to gauge how good the film is." If you don't speak Korean, that is. The film in question does better than most Hollywood thrillers and even those of law and order procedurals.
“For its narrative twists and turns in relation to its Korean texture and rhythms.” Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it four out of five stars and said: "Memories of Murder is a great satire on laziness and official arrogance, the last of which is a particularly chilling scene." Derek Ehley of Variety called the film "a powerful, slow-burning portrait of human fallibility."
By the end of the film's domestic run, it had been seen by 5,101,645 people,[17] making it the most watched film of 2003 in South Korea. While it was eventually surpassed by Selmido, which was released in the same year, most of Selmido's audience did not see it until 2004.[citation needed] At the end of its run, Memories of Murder was also the fourth most watched film of all time.
All the while in the country, following Sherri, the friend and JSA.[citation needed] The film's commercial success is credited with saving one of the production companies, Sidus Pictures, from bankruptcy.
Memories of Murder received screenings at numerous international film festivals, including the New Zealand International Film Festival, [19] South by Southwest International Film Festival, [20] Cannes Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival and San... Francisco.
Sebastian International Film Festival, where Bong Joon-ho won the Best Director award.
Director Quentin Tarantino named it, along with Bong's The Host, one of his top 20 favorite films from 1992.
It was also chosen as the best Korean film of the century.[23] Sight & Sound included it on its list of "30 Key Films that Defined the Decade". It was number 63 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s.
In 2010, Film Comment magazine listed its best films of the decade based on an international poll of various cinephiles, including filmmakers, critics and academics.
Two films directed by Bong Joon Ho were included in the list – The Host (No. 71) and Memories of Murder (No. 84).[26]
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In 2020, distributor NEON acquired the rights to Relive Memories of Murder.
The film was released on Blu-ray on April 20, 2021, and is distributed by The Criterion Collection.
Although the total body count is not mentioned in the film, at least 10 similar murders were committed in the Hwaseong area between October 1986 and April 1991 in what became known as the Hwaseong Serial Murders.
Some details of the murders shown in the film, such as the killer gagging the women with their underwear, were taken from the case.[28] As in the film, crime scene investigators found bodily fluids suspected to belong to the killer,
but were unable to access the equipment necessary to determine whether the DNA matched the suspect's DNA until late in the investigation. After the ninth murder, DNA evidence was sent to Japan (unlike the film, where it was sent to America) for analysis, but the results did not match any suspects.
At the time of the film's release, the actual killer had not yet been caught.
With the case about to reach the statute of limitations, South Korea's leading Uri Party has sought to amend the law to give prosecutors more time to find the killer. However, in 2006, the statute of limitations ran out for the last known victim.[30]
More than 13 years later, on September 18, 2019, police announced that a man in his 50s, named Lee Chun-jae, had been identified as a suspect in the killings.
He was identified after matching DNA from one victim's underwear to his own DNA, and subsequent DNA testing linked him to four of the other unsolved serial murders. At the time he was identified, he was already serving a life sentence in Busan Prison for the rape and murder of his wife
