![]() ![]() Now, it appears that those victims might receive some sort of justice and “Memories of Murder” might have a brand-new ending. From 1986 to 1991, 10 women were found murdered in the South Korean city of Hwaseong. The actual identity of the person hasn’t been released.Īs of now, the police are continuing their investigation, but the focus is on this new suspect and his relationship to the crimes from the ‘80s and early-‘90s. The killer would rape and murder women with ritualistic consistencies, including a signature of tying them in their own clothes. #MEMORIES OF A MURDERER SERIAL#This leads the investigators to believe that the person that is responsible for the murders decades ago is actually someone they’ve had in custody already. The Memories of Murder Killer is an unidentified, at large serial killer and the central antagonist of the 2003 Korean crime film success Memories of Murder. The report says that police finally found their leading suspect after DNA pulled from the crime scenes matched that of an inmate that is already incarcerated. READ MORE: ‘Parasite’ Trailer: Bong Joon-Ho’s Award-Winning Family Drama Takes A Dark Turn #MEMORIES OF A MURDERER CRACKED#However, thanks to a new report from the Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean outlet says that police think they’ve cracked the real-life case. ![]() And for those that have seen the film, you know that the crimes at the center of the plot remained unsolved, much like the real-life investigation. No matter what you think of the film, “Memories of Murder” has an interesting backstory, as it’s based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killings that happened in the late-‘80s. Some folks around The Playlist would even venture to say that the 2003 film is the filmmaker’s true masterpiece, even more so than the recent “Parasite.” (Those folks will remain nameless, for fear of Film Twitter upheaval.) READ MORE: ‘Parasite’: Bong Joon-Ho Delivers A Demented, Uproarious Class-Conscious Satire įor fans of Bong’s first films, you probably hold “Memories of Murder” in high regard. However, today, we’re not here to talk about “Parasite.” Instead, it’s 2003’s “ Memories of Murder” that is garnering headlines, as Bong’s serial killer film might have just found its real-life ending. A young cop transferred from Seoul, Inspector Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) has more professionalism but he, like the other two, is hopelessly out of his depth.Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is getting a lot of press this year, thanks to the incredible film “ Parasite.” Much like Alfonso Cuaron’s “ Roma” from 2018, “Parasite” seems poised to be a major awards season contender, and could mark the second year in a row that a foreign-language film has the chance to dominate the Oscars. Veteran actor Song Kang-ho (the dad from Parasite) is the beefy, cynical Inspector Park his dopey and aggressive sidekick is Inspector Cho (Kim Roe-ha) who beats suspects and uses a special woollen oven mitt-style overshoe to put on his boot when he wants to kick someone to avoid leaving a mark. The officers in Memories of Murder are quite different. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see how the film challenges and subverts the serial killer procedural in its entirety Anglo-Hollywood cops on the trail of psychopathic monsters tend to be tough professionals, or forensic savants – or they can be fascinatingly “flawed” with weaknesses or vulnerabilities that only underline how sympathetic they actually are. His film is based on the Hwaseong serial murders of the late 1980s they remained unsolved until this film came out, sparking a renewed upsurge of interest in the case, which led finally to the identification of the culprit last year – who was already serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister-in-law in 1994. B ong Joon-ho broke through to global acclaim with an Oscar for his film Parasite, and now the rerelease of his black comic thriller Memories of Murder from 2003 reminds you that, along with all his other glittering prizes and achievements, this director also helped catch the most notorious serial killer in South Korean history. ![]()
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