Others are hell

Adell 2021-11-18 08:01:27

For a while, I was very obsessed with suspense films, so after a long carpet of suspense and horrors, the lingering in my mind was this "Memories of Murder".
It was once voted as the first of the greatest Korean works in a hundred years, and it was also hailed as a "zero defect" movie. The most rare thing is that this is a veritable movie under the prestigious name, and the wind critics are also popular all the way. For me, this is a movie that I saw when I saw my teeth trembling with hate, and my back was cold at the end, and I couldn’t come out for three days after watching it. It’s the same type of fear and aftereffects. The leader in the world.

The beginning of "Memories of Murder" is a sad piano. A vast rice field and a ditch where corpses are hidden, a reckless old agent and a new agent with high self-esteem, in this quiet and boring village, the hidden murderous intent is like the fangs of a snake. Will attack from the quiet grass and kill with one blow.
Static and dynamic, closed and open, backward and precise, romantic and murderous-the contrast is the first genius of this movie.
Another wise point is that it is closely integrated with the times. In that era full of military reunification politics and campaign suppression, the police advocated the use of subjugation in handling cases, and the DNA had to be sent to the United States for testing. It was closed, ignorant, and repressed, and there was an indescribable desolation. Rainy nights, stockings, serial murders, red-clothed female victims, coupled with brutal methods of killing, the mental devastation and violent oppression brought by people are breathless-a murderer has turned an entire village into a dead city and is at stake.
The fate of an individual cannot escape the times, and the secret currents of individuals are hidden in the torrent of the times. It’s so noisy outside, many people and many things, the only thing a person can grasp is this little self, but because the times are turbulent, your words and deeds may easily catch the amplitude of the turbulence of the times, and even it becomes yours. Accomplices, so heroes, heroes and demons are easy to emerge in troubled times. A lonely boat in a troubled world has set off a great uproar—the kind of sadness is the sadness of facing the emptiness of the vast wilderness.

Rainy night, tree-lined trails, single women, red clothes, meet all the conditions for the murderer to choose his prey. After the police's girlfriend went home after visiting the doctor, the murderer was preparing to ambush in the dark, but she passed by the female student, and the death was reversed in this second. She was spared without knowing it, and the female student became a dead soul.
When the idiot was questioned by the police, he once said: "That person pushed me into the fire. The fire was terrible." This valuable clue was ignored. The only idiot who probably knew who the murderer was was also killed by a train.
The murderer's face was exposed once during the attack. It was a face that was distorted by the pale flashlight.
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All the details make people shudder and sigh infinitely. And the answer is as close to the truth of the case as the hyperbolic infinite approach coordinates, but it is only a little bit short, but it will always be only a little bit short.

Thousands of times, the murderer locked on a handsome man. According to the understanding of the Anti-Appearance Association and the necessity of dramatization, a person who has no power to bind a chicken or a face that is not stained is often the ultimate boss. Moreover, his face is in line with the frailty of the murderer, and the expression in his eyes is still With the assassin's coldness, the side evidence is in place, and only one direct evidence can be convicted. When the answer was ready to come out, the DNA certificate returned from the United States overturned everything.
The full-strength fist hit the air, and even the anger became weak.
Agent Su is a symbol of knowledge and truth, but even he collapsed. Known for his calmness, he discarded his reason and used wrong killings to end the criminal breakdown behavior, even within reason.

At the end of the film, the agent from Congshang returned to the scene of the murder again. The girl told him that someone had followed him a few days ago and took a look here.
"What did he say?"
"He remembered what he had done here in the past, so he came back to take a look."
"Did you see his face? What does he look like?"
"Very ordinary." Do
n't dare to touch it anymore . His scars, nightmarish memories, came from the hands of a man with an ordinary face. On the camera is Song Kanghao's face almost weeping, in deep despair, exposed to broad daylight.
This wonderful ending is like the dull pain of a dagger inserted into the body, sharply slitting the flesh, and then slowly twisting it.

The story of "Memories of Murder" comes from a real sensational case in South Korea. The police have invested 2.05 million police officers. This case has passed the 15-year statute of limitations and has not been solved yet.
This movie is the 2003 South Korean box office champion. The real murderer is very likely to sit in the cinema and appreciate his murderous art with the crowd. Think about it, what a terrible thing this is.
The evil around us comes from so many ordinary faces. Others are hell. The human heart is the deepest focus of sin. This is also the deepest shadow left by the movie.
Western movies mostly follow the visual route, while the East likes to follow the psychological route, with suspense and horror, with strong stamina. That kind of meticulousness and the confidence in atmosphere creation is simply a mind-controlling technique. Every flaw is stuck in your heart, and every time it is shattered, it hurts your nerves. A movie is a round of mental games, even if you are in trouble. Calculating it is a destined loser.

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Memories of Murder quotes

  • Detective Cho Yong-koo: I only beat you up because I care about you.

  • [last lines]

    Detective Park Doo-Man: Did you see his face?

    [Girl Nods]

    Detective Park Doo-Man: What did he look like?

    Schoolgirl: Well... kind of plain.

    Detective Park Doo-Man: In what way?

    Schoolgirl: Just... ordinary