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As camera moves back, we see what the detective sees – dead, naked female body. We follow this man, our main character detective Park Doo-man (Kang-ho Song), back to the police office and witness his flimsy investigation. The chilling contrast of the tranquil surrounding and decomposing body sets the mood for the whole film. As camera moves back we see what he sees – a naked female body, tied up, covered with bugs, starting to decompose. On the back of the tractor an indistinctive man is smoking a cigarette and trying to shoo away the children who are chasing them, shouting “Junk car!” The tractor stops at a drain ditch and the man bends to look into it. A boy is catching grasshoppers, but his attention is quickly captured by a far sound of a tractor.

The story starts in the peaceful fields of a rural town in South Korea. The tranquility of the first scene sets a contrast for all horrible events.

MEMORIES OF MURDERS STREAMING MOVIE

This review contains spoilers, therefore I recommend watching the movie first. And what a journey it was, revealing a part of Korean history I was not very familiar with and placing the movie in a cultural, historical and psycho-historical context.

“Memories of Murder” was telling something more than I initially could comprehend and I went on researching it. It happens with those carefully crafted films that place symbols with a masterful precision to tell a multilayered story. Memories of it kept coming back to me as if trying to solve a riddle. Written: Bong Joon-ho, Kwang-rim Kim, Sung Bo ShimĪfter viewing the movie the first time I was not sure what to make of it.

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