Memories Of Murder 4K 2003 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

In 1986, in the provincial town of Hwaseong, two local women are murdered in the same twisted way. Detective Park Too-man and his assistant Jo Young-gu are trying with all their might to find the killer. More precisely - to make any suspect confess to the crime, and they do it with the most brutal methods. Detective Seo Tae-young from Seoul arrives to investigate and find the maniac based on the evidence. Meanwhile, the murders continue.

Review 4K Movie

By the way, it was the first movie that opened my acquaintance with such a wonderful and talented phenomenon as modern Korean cinema. In general, the movie, as a single work, is very strong, ambiguous and elegant in style. I read a lot of reviews about it on the net. In addition to simple connoisseurs of quality cinematography, the movie is also admired directly by the investigators themselves, who have experience in solving serial crimes. I can not share their enthusiasm, for I am not a professional in this matter, but it seems to me that the atmosphere is conveyed 100%.

Films about serial killers the cinematic world has known not a few. And not that it consisted entirely of third-rate slashers, using hackneyed and hackneyed stereotypes, which can be summarized in a simple formula: Maniac - mask - knife / knife / chainsaw / hammer / axe - forest edge / home on the outskirts / lost city / desert - crowd of teenagers / single woman / model average family. Although, you have to admit, the percentage of such a 'movie' is off the scale of 90 in the total mass.

Hollywood gave the audience and a few really worthy representatives of the genre - think of the movies Silence of the Lambs, Seven or Zodiac. But still they were very Hollywood. Brave policemen time after time collecting evidence, criminalists analyze them, make hypotheses. a constant game of cat and mouse. Sometimes fast-paced, sometimes drawn out. Happy ending or not. But it's still the Hollywood story everyone's used to.

After watching Memories of Murder for the first time, I couldn't come to my senses for days - so differently the story was told. And damn me, how sincere, truthful and heavy in its truthfulness it turned out to be! When the entire law enforcement system is more like an old rusted-out steam train that wants to run on a brand new monorail. When the brass is pounding the table with cries of 'catch it quick'! When the police force has NO qualified investigators, and those who can't get hired anywhere else go there. When the bosses are ready to pin the blame on the first person they see. Then what happens is what happens in the movie.

And at the very end of the movie becomes very sorry for the entire investigation team. Guess after guess. Suspect after suspect. So want to believe that here it is - the end of the investigation. But he slips out of sight every time. And on the background of all this masterpiece intertwined personal life of the characters, the internal political situation in Korea, the constant civil defense drills. Comic moments and at all inspire hope for a bright future. But in a second another body found in the wasteland and the realization of futility scalds with boiling water. Then again a new hypothesis of investigators and so on in a vicious circle.

Insanely strong ending of the story even in half a year after watching it is constantly in my head, although nothing happens in it. No nuclear bomb explosions, no public executions of presidents, no global epidemics.