Tilda Swinton No Longer in Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' Series: 'Very Happy to Be a Cheerleader'īong Joon Ho's New Movie with Robert Pattinson and Steven Yeun Starts Filming in England Unsupported by a futile national police force that devoted the majority of its manpower to suppressing the student rebellion that had risen up against Chun Doo-hwan’s oppressive regime, and kept in the dark (sometimes literally) because of despotic policies on both sides of the 38th Parallel, the kick-happy Keystone Kops driving the film’s tragicomic investigation naturally crash into a dead end. This question only applies to so many films, but none have asked it more directly - or answered it with more force - than Bong Joon Ho’s “ Memories of Murder.” A loose but historically redolent evocation of the serial killings that plagued the rural South Korean city of Hwaseong between 19, Bong’s 2003 masterpiece defrosted his country’s most notorious cold case by looking back at it as a damning microcosm of life during autocracy, and as a symptom of the powerlessness that can seep into the general population of any country whose government only cares about preserving its own tenuous control of them. Would an uncannily effective studio thriller like “The Mothman Prophecies” still be eerie enough to punch above its weight class if the Mothman turned out to be a bored accountant named Gary whose prank calls got a little out of hand? Probably not. So who? None other than Toshio Sendo, the journalist whose reputation and career are built upon his reports of the killings.Every film inspired by a real unsolved crime leaves behind the same lingering question: Would any of then retain their full power if their respective real-world crimes were eventually solved? Would “Zodiac” still be such a haunting police sketch of pathological obsession in a world where viewers could Google the killer’s identity in less time than it takes Robert Graysmith to crack even the easiest cypher? Probably. After a dramatic, televised fight, it is revealed that both Masato Sonezaki and, (actually Takumi Onodera) were working together in a bid to provoke the killer, encouraging him to come forward.ĭetective Ko Takimura wrote the book with information obtained from police reports, whilst Takumi Onodera, the fiancée to Takimuras’s murdered sister, underwent drastic cosmetic surgery to change his identity- later emerging as the ‘face’ of the killer (see what I meant about the unrealistic plot line?!).Īfter a series of additional plot twists and turns, Takumi Onodera uses his intuition and a (somewhat simplistic) understanding of PTSD to figure out the true identity of the murderer. So, this is your spoiler alert big reveals await below…Īs the hype continues to develop around the case, Toshio Sendo, a journalist whose career was built upon his reports of the killings, and Police Detective Ko Takimura, whose sister X was killed by the ‘Strangler’ in an act of vengeance meet on live television to discuss the legitimacy of Masato Sonezaki’s claim to be the infamous murderer.Ĭonfusion continues to develop as an anonymous source discounts Sonezaki’s claim, releasing footage that could only have been captured by the killer. This said the film is still worth watching. Whilst Memoirs of a Murderer touches upon interesting themes and has an unusual, unpredictable storyline, its plot does lack depth in places and is somewhat unrealistic. The film is set in 2017, fifteen years after five cold-blooded murders shook the nation, with Masato Sonezaki releasing a book that details the specifics of each murder. A remake of the 2012 Korean film ‘Confessions of a Murderer,’ Yu Irie’s ‘ Memoirs of a Murderer,’ explores a loophole in Japanese law that allows a serial killer, known up until this point only as of the ‘Tokyo Strangler,’ to reveal his identity without the threat of trial or any legal implication.
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