Bong Joon-ho.Īnd so, there could not be any time better to remaster the film. The good and bad news is that he’s already been long-imprisoned - decreasing the likelihood he received Bong Joon-ho’s message, and yet, kept from further damages. Last year, South Korean police finally traced DNA back to a suspect and closed the case. Based on a true story, of South Korea’s first known serial killer, the public waited thirty years and has finally been granted a reprieve. Bong Joon-ho seems to taunt the killer who watches his film, says knowingly, you are seen and will be brought to justice. In the final frame, the film breaks the fourth wall and his character looks into the audience. He knows their internal truth by looking them in the eyes. Song Kang-ho’s detective can read any subject. All they have are their memories of murder.īong Joon-ho has stated the ending is meant to encompass that very frustration. The depth of their despair is that they will never find the killer. What it highlights, with such specific aptitude, are the frustrations of detectives perpetually at a dead-end. ![]() Hwaeseong could be a rural city from anywhere and the killer could be anyone who lives there. Bong Joon-ho’s very purpose, in all his stark contrasts, is to show us the inherent frustration of three increasingly beleaguered detectives. The key to Memories of Murder is that it is a crime drama about an unsolved crime. The shots skew slightly darker now, bringing to light the expert blending of Black Comedy, making every gritty detail darker, rendering the psychological crime drama as internally troubled, and paired with a mix that brings its sound to the fore, leaving an incredible impression for the viewer. With a significant remaster, the masterful countryside photography is now heightened, the implicit juxtapositions modernized, and fit for rerelease on the big screens. ![]() Such are the contrasts at the center of Bong Joon-ho’s magnificent Memories of Murder (2003), an important crime drama now properly preserved for the sake of history and the arts. Within the lush farmland, a young woman’s body is discovered, naked, and left in a ditch. ![]() The pastoral yellow-green fields of rural South Korea belie a sense of lurking danger.
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