#Movies like memories of murder movie#

If some think I am being unfair to Zodiac I think people need to get better acquainted with Graysmith character whose 'investigation' is the basis for most of the movie. I’ll rewatch it when I have the occasion.ĮDIT : I assume the downvote is about Zodiac ? My point was more about how smart Memories of Murder is and I mostly used Zodiac to highlight it. Every time someone mentions Zodiac, I oppose Memories of murder: “THAT is how you deal with an open case”.Ī great detective/noir movie. I love Fincher but I just can’t like this movie.

#Movies like memories of murder movie#

And I find this all the more interesting that a blockbuster detective movie like Zodiac hailed by almost everyone as a great movie falls into that trap : it has a great director, top talent … but it reduces everything to a whodunit and the conclusion is VERY arguable which fragiziles everything about the movie. Back then I already thought it was the right move on several levels. And guess what : the murderer has been caught recently and it’s none of the suspect in the movie. It’s been a while but this movie made quite an impression on me - the right mix of character, social analysis and action.Īlso very interesting, the movie doesn’t pretend to break the case. And while not especially gory, this film was disturbing on a visceral level. On a personal level, a lot of it was hard to watch, as I'd lived and taught in Suwon for years, which is apparently where a lot of the killing happened. I loved the ending, with a now-retired Park scanning the audience watching, searching for the at the time uncaught killer. Clumsy, dumb, misguided, scared, haunted humans. It's not stylish, it's not cool, it's human. The police sergeant drunkenly vomiting into a drink bucket at the karaoke bar, the disastrous press event, the opening scene with the farmer running over the evidence and the police sliding down the embankment. I can't really think of the correct term for this movie, but it seemed very grounded. Seeing him broken in the end, wanting to kill the last suspect regardless of conclusive proof, was both tragic but understandable after seeing the body of the poor high school girl who was the final victim in the film. Seo Tae-yoon starts off resentful and distrustful of the local yokels handling this case, their brutality and clumsy assumptions. Park Doo-man ends up quitting his job, but remains haunted by the case. It was interesting and tragic to see this case basically break the people working on it.

It seems police cutting corners and forcing confessions is something that crosses borders internationally. I could see the influence of Alan Moore's From Hell in this movie, but I also could see how this movie is sadly timeless. The family in The Host having to struggle against a thoughtless US military presence and Korean bureaucracy. He tells his stories very concerned with real people, human beings against institutions. If I had to classify his work, I'd say he's a very human director. I've long been a fan of Bong Joon-ho, especially how he can switch genres and isn't afraid of putting in slapstick comedy in serious dramas.