it really got to me, finished off an amazing film. but i dont understand...why was it so great? what made it so fantastic? i have to put it down to fantastic film making.
well i shall definetly be checking out 'the host' now!
i don't read books, they ruin the movie for me
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I am a korean but i have always avoided korean cinema, but after getting great impression from JSA, The Host, and Oldboy I gave a shot at this. And once again, it proved me that korean cinema has gotten better.
I thought the movie was brilliant, and flawless. It is going to haunt me for a while I am sure.
Well anyways,about the final shot i thought it was powerful because well first i thought when she meant an ordinary man i thought of the second detective who was there to look at his work but when the first detective looked at the camera with a haunted face, i thought again who might that ordinary man be. And i am guessint that it must be the serial killer who came there by to relive his "work". It creeped me out.
Yes, it was *the close-up* of that particular detective's (haunted) face that made it work, and it worked because the actor's face is by nature a bright/funny one.
An ingenious ending, to jump forward all those years for just a few minutes of screen time. And a great and telling final frame, giving the movie its title, "Memories of Murder".
(At least) 9/10 on my score card.
For all the reasons stated, yeah, but there's something I couldn't put my finger on at first.
He's looking into the audience, at the murderer. The director probably assumed that the murderer would come to see the movie. It's sort of saying, "I know you're there, and I know why you came to see this."
Just a thought.
Interesting point that, thethief36.
shareand also that once again, the detective's wrong, as the main suspect would probably have not been described as ordinary.
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just watched again, i think he was really looking to us!
sharewow totally a great movie... what i got from it was that he was right in a sense.... remember him talking to his police captian "these *beep* always look normal" or something along those lines. the truth is that you cant tell who these people are and that is what scares him the most especially since his "super power" is his eyes. that is what creeps me out the most about serial killers they always appear normal and i think that is what the director was getting at. all great points above though and truly an amazing film really moving and great cinematography.
shareGreat interpretation by thethief36
shareI thought for sure that the girl at the end would say "Memories", hard cut to black screen... But this was brilliant too :D
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Wow, that's too bad you don't watch many Korean films. You really should, most of the best films I've seen over the past 5 years or so have come from your country.
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Have any of you guys seen The Great Train Robbery? It was a black and white silent film, well at the end, the robber who was very intimidating (you gotta remember this film scared the crap out of audiences because movies at this time were totally new) well like I was saying the robber is by himself, close up and looks at the audience. He pulls out his gun points it at the screen and fires.
This had a profound effect on the audience because it was up close and personal and this larger than life figure was looking straight at them with a gun.
i dunno, when i saw that powerful ending in Memories of Murder, it automatically reminded me of that last shot in the Great Train Robbery.
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you should watch the host, it's hilarious
- ..and all my actions for the SS were actually for the OSS - Hans Landa
I think you have to go back to the beginning of the film, where the kid repeats every word the detective says..
"He looks like you", could have a more metaphoric standing...if you look closely almost all the male characters have behaved threateningly to women-
Suh beats a woman in the demonstration
The inspector treats the female subordinate like *beep* her theory about the radio program are disregarded, and even when they turn out to be true, not a single detective praises on her find. She is still getting coffee for them in a later scene.
The women are either sick, or are prostitute. I dont think the film singularly set out to have a feminist stand, but it did generally leave pointers that i realized on my second viewing.
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In the end the film becomes very symbolic about the treatment of women by society, and how abuse is accepted throughout societies towards women.
The killer is never caught further reinforces this idea that the killer could be any one of us... truly a movie that will stay with you for a long time.
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I think it comes down to the great expression from Song Kang Ho, the actor playing the detective. When he realizes the serial killer was there reminiscing about his murder, that look of hopelessness that he finally talks someone who has seen the man he was relentlessly searching for but knowing that he will never find this man because all the little girl can say of him was that he looked 'ordinary'. great film!
shareHe is looking at us, the murderer, as it were. For we are all the collective killer. If not in deed, than certainly in mind, per se.
shareThe fact that the murderer (if we assume that the girl in the last shot was describing him) is average looking. He could be anyone. He blended into society and no one was the wiser. He wasn't some identifiable monster. He was just an average looking dude. That makes it even more haunting and unsettling.
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