But instead, I went to the library and researched books and particularly newspaper articles from that time. I was writing the script in 2001 and there was internet, and I could do searches on that. “Of course, the research period took a long time because it was such a big case with so many murders, and if I wrote the script over a period of one year, maybe six months of it was research related. The crimes were still unresolved when Bong Joon-ho decided to make the film in 2003. It might be difficult for American audiences to grasp exactly what the Hwaseong serial murders were to the Korean people, but a horrific series of rapes and murders terrorized the rural town of Hwaseong in the Gyeonggi Province between Septemand April 3, 1991. However, a cursory knowledge of these things does add enormously to the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of the film and the themes within it. In fact, it isn’t even necessary for viewers to be aware of the film’s true crime origins. One doesn’t necessarily need to be versed in the sociopolitical history of Korea to become caught up in the film’s story. One of the wonderful strengths of Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder is that it can be enjoyed on a number of different levels. So, in the last shot you see the failed detective look directly into the camera, and I wanted to have that interesting contrast of him looking out into the audience and the actual killer being in the movie theater watching the detective looking back at him.” - Bong Joon-ho (Q&A: Jacob Burns Film Center, March 19, 2015) When I was shooting the movie and talking with my crew, we were talking about how the criminal was going to watch the movie in the theater. So, I couldn’t take that producer’s advice and have that sort of fake ending with the murderer being caught. It’s really about what happened in the eighties, and it’s a real sort of sad story. It’s sort of a group trauma - a mass trauma - for all Koreans… It’s a story of failure. They don’t catch him.’ One producer suggested, ‘have them catch the criminal at the end, and have them be beaten and taken to prison,’ but I didn’t want to do that… Many innocent people were tortured and accused of being the criminal. “A lot of the producers said, ‘don’t make this movie because there’s no payoff at the end. However, this transfer was taken from a 4K Restoration that was supervised and approved by the director and cinematographer of the film.Īlthough knowing details about the ending isn’t going to reduce the power of this film (Korean viewers have always been aware of the facts of this case), we feel the need to warn viewers that this article does contain spoilers. Notes: This 2-Disc Criterion Edition is the North American Blu-ray debut of “ Memories of Murder.” The film has been released on the format prior to this in other regions, and an earlier edition from CJ Entertainment was Region Free. Main Audio: 5.1 Korean DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 4098 kbps, 24-bit) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019).Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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