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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0660200311421 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd Languages: Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 09, 2005 Running Time: 132 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: A South Korean thriller based on a true story, Memories of Murder comes across like a hybrid of Silence of the Lambs and One False Move. A pair of rural detectives, Park (Song Kang-ho) and Jo (Kim Roe-ha), chafe when a Seoul detective named Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) gets involved in their big case: Korea's first known serial killer, who's killed two women on rainy nights. Seo is dismayed by the rural cops' interrogation methods, which consist of beating suspects until they confess--and they aren't above planting evidence or "helping" a suspect remember the details of his crime. While Park and Jo seek clues from fortune tellers and magic charms, Seo struggles to build a case from hard evidence and the forensic approaches only just starting to take hold (the movie is set in 1986). Shots of the victims and jolting moments of violence give Memories of Murder a dose of gruesomeness, but the movie has more on its mind that exploitation. Visually stylish and psychologically astute, Memories of Murder is as much a portrait of cultural change as a serial killer mystery. --Bret Fetzer Description: Based on the true story of South Korea's first serial killer. When women start turning up dead in a small town in S. Korea in 1986, two reluctantly-partnered cops resolve to bring him to justice. Without DNA testing or modern forensics, the investigators are forced to rely mainly on intuition and brute force. At times both touching and hilarious, MEMORIES OF MURDER is a riveting tale of a mysterious killer and the ceaseless pressure on those charged with stopping his rampage. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - science into brutalityDon't be put off by the tacky title and silly cover! This may sound pretensious, but I found Memories of Murder to be a wonderfully subtle criticism of the pretensions and tragedy of science -- a lamentation of the failure of Western modernity to deliver the orderly utopia it promised. In CSI, science almost always reveals the truth, reveals the bad guy. What if the world is not so transparent, however? What if the life is such a complicated mishmash that no amount of methodological ... Read More Rating:  - Intelligent, surprising police procedural.Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003) It has now been twenty-one years since the first known serial killer in Korea surfaced. The case remains unsolved to this day. Of course, that never stopped American directors from making serial killer movies (viz. the many movies about the zodiac killer, of which David Fincher's is only the latest), why should it stop the Koreans? Thus we have Joon-ho Bong's Memories of Murder. Based on the actual events, Memories of Murder covers ... Read More Rating:  - sad letter and sad movie toofrom the director who brought you THE HOST, MEMORIES OF MURDER is based on a true story of south korea most nortorius serial killer. women are murdered and a killer might be sending postcards to a radio station to alert police of upcoming murders, the song SAD LETTER is played during rainstorms(why either are connected are never fully explained). slow but involving with some strained attempt at humor. the pace of the film just feels ackward better editing/tightening would have helped. overall, ... Read More Rating: - A thrilling and unsettling depiction of what happens when old school Korean detectives meet American style psychotic killersA hotshot young detective from Seoul is enlisted to help out the old school small town detectives when it becomes clear they have a sophisticated serial killer on their hands. The local detectives' old school methods -- unscientific crime scene investigation, gathering of usual suspects and assisting them to remember with threats and torture, planting of evidence -- aren't going to cut it with a sophisticated killer on the loose who threatens repeat violence. On the other hand, the new methods - ... Read More Rating: - A beautiful film and a bitter pill to swallowKorea makes the best films. America has literally handed over the reigns of contemporary adult cinema to Asia, and directors like Joon Ho Bong and Park Chan Wook are running with them. This is one of the best examples of the kind of emotional, edgy, entertainment that comes out of Korea. It is a true story of murder and small town social politics. It is about people and how people are affected by death. It is scary, it is tense, it is well thought out, well-acted, and deftly directed. Watch this ... Read More |
