It's not worthy of the evaluation, I'm very confused after watching it~~~

Gertrude 2022-03-20 09:01:37

The motivation for watching this movie at the beginning was to see that the audience gave a lot of comments and the ratings were relatively high, but in terms of the effect and the most direct feeling after watching it, I dare not give an unworthy evaluation. The whole movie is about Unable to find clues and under the pressure of external pressure, it is easy for people to fail to uphold their previous justice or fairness. At first, the small town policeman Park was an ignorant and selfish rogue policeman. Those cases without evidence were handled by brutal means, extorting confessions, creating false evidence just to get a commendation for closing the case, analyzing the case was just superficial conjecture, and in the second half, I actually went to pray to God and worship Buddha to ask myself to find some evidence. I thought this movie was to show that people in the real world will become numb even in a hopelessly ignorant environment, because the policeman Su from Seoul is an example of gradual assimilation, and the plot is very sparse. And many places are connected very rigidly, giving people the feeling that most Korean movies do not talk about logic and only talk about emotions. After all, this movie has been affirmed by some people. I think they must be the protagonist in it. In terms of dedication and seriousness in work, although policeman Park has no analytical ability in handling cases after graduation, and he prides himself on being born to eat this bowl of rice, such a relatively shallow person can also spend sleepless nights in order to handle a case. In the end, he shed tears of despair at the powerlessness of the criminals at large. From this point of view, he does not seem like a complete hooligan. In short, people of every status will have things they cannot change, and there will be areas where they can do nothing, but Being able to keep it in mind is also a shining point in a person's heart, just like policeman Park did not work as a police officer but went into business after many years, and accidentally returned to the place where he used to investigate the case, inadvertently knew that the murderer was still at large nearby, but still could not know about him. This is the most memorable segment in the whole film, and it is also the focus of the director's intention to express his purpose. In short, I feel that most Korean dramas have to find something outstanding from his emotional and humanistic aspects. Logically, technically watching Korean dramas would not be called Korean dramas. . . Of course, there are also many excellent works, but the whole feeling of Korean dramas is like this. They are good at describing and expressing people's emotions, but they are not good at clear context and objectively speaking logic. The reason why this method still has a market, I think it is Because there is no logic in front of emotions, in other words, people can use emotions to contain the mess of logic. . . . In short, this is a card that is often played in Korean dramas, and it will continue to be played for a long time. . . .

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  • Ivy 2021-11-18 08:01:27

    A very ordinary movie.

  • Reyes 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    It's sad to watch it off and on. The truth can drive rational people crazy, and make people with conscience unscrupulous. How can people in extreme situations believe it? A country with such a short and turbulent history can make a movie that is written into a textbook of world film history within 20 years of the crime. China has never lacked a Korean version of Memories of Murder. What China lacks is the environment that nurtures good movies.

Memories of Murder quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Detective Seo Tae-yoon: The documents never lie.

  • Detective Park Doo-Man: Chief, I may know nothing else, but my eyes can read people. That's how I survive as a detective, and why people say I have shaman's eyes.