![]() I’d be hard-pressed to say which is the better film, but they’d make a great double feature.ĭetective Park and his partner Cho Yong-koo (Kim Roi-ha) aren’t above beating a confession out of anybody who even resembles being a suspect. But Bong’s film is looser, funnier, more political, and less obsessed with obsession than Fincher’s film. They are both beautifully shot and acted and are more concerned with the psychologies of those looking to catch the killer than the killer himself. It is an obvious comparison as both films meticulously detail the investigation into a serial killer who had never been caught (at least at the time of filming, Lee Choon-jae has since confessed to the murders depicted in the Bong film). Memories of Murder (2003), the second film from South Korean director Bong Joon ho, is often compared with David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007). More and more women are found raped and murdered in the area over the ensuing weeks and months. This type of thing has never happened before. Nobody seems to know what they are doing. That footprint is run over by a passing truck. A policeman falls down a hill cops, journalists, and on-lookers trample all over the scene. ![]() Someone points out a shoe print in the mud near the crime scene and in a bravura tracking shot the camera sweeps over a large field detailing the chaos that sprawls out before Park. The boy stays and repeats every word the detective says, mocking him. He’s not exactly incompetent, but he’s never had to deal with this type of crime before. ![]() Detective Park Doo-man (Song Kang-ho) stares at her with uncertainty. A woman has been brutally raped and murdered. ![]()
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