Didn't police search warrant the entire house at the end? - Gisaengchung (2019) Discussion

[–] abigolcwock (517) 5 years ago

I doubt they'd try to look behind a big ass shelf that looked to be stuck to the wall, and they had no reason to expect that he was still in the house

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[–] EricCartmanBrah (436) 5 years ago

I'm sorry I just don't buy that. Surely the idea of him still being inside must have gone through the police's heads at some point. Likewise to the point of there being a hidden place. If the maid knew most mansions had one of those, then surely the police must also be aware of this concept. I also think it's weird that the previous owners never told the Park family about that room. I mean, apparently it's there some of the core of their electricity comes from too?

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[–] Maya (116) 4 years ago

In the news report in the end the reporter traces his last steps to coming down the stairs. They had video footage of him taking that route, but the camera to the garage was cut so they could only assume he escaped through the alley. There's no reason to believe he would go back into the house after killing the owner...?

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[–] FreeTThinker (14) 3 years ago

You must not know how utterly incompetent Korean police are. It's a trope in Korean media and it mirrors Korean life. I'll put it this way....Last week, a Korean family was having trouble with a psycho violent neighbor. Called the Korean version of 911, three cops showed up. The psycho neighbor stabbed a child in the neck. The cops ran away screaming.

South Korean cops are incompetent baffoons. Basically every Korean police's day is a Charlie Chaplin film.

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[–] Cathexis (112) 5 years ago

You're looking for realism where it doesn't exist. This is a movie where an entire family is able to swiftly and successfully deceive another entire family into employing them under pretenses that are never once questioned or investigated. Bong is a genre man, and this film, like most genre films, requires massive suspension of disbelief.

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[–] ebhaynz (3688) 5 years ago

I agree 100 percent.

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (6349) 5 years ago

Not just that. If you want to think about realism, when realtors get a description of a house that basement will be included and they will go and inspect it, trying to make the house seem worth as much as possible.

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[–] MonStar (12898) 4 years ago

The husband from the basement comes out and murders Ki-jung, Kim's daughter. The police would want to know who he was and where he came from. "Where did he live?" Why would his wife not tell them about the basement then? She and Kim's wife were the only ones, at that point, who could do that.

Nobody but Kim knew (at that point) that he'd gone to the basement to hide.

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[–] Strazdas (2472) 4 years ago

The news report said he was homeless. The police probably assumed he juste entered the house off the street. remmeber the camera was broken.

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[–] thingmakersback (1370) 4 years ago

Didn't police search warrant the entire house at the end?
It makes no sense. Of course they must have, and ended up finding the bunker.

Actually, it does make pretty good sense. The house was built by the architect who previously occupied it. This dates the building at as long ago as 50 years... The architect clearly had serious cold-war paranoia, which would have been at least as strong in South Korea as in the USA. Think about it - memories of the North Korean invasion would have been part of his childhood. Anyway, by the time of the sale, we are told, by the former housekeeper, he was embarrassed about the bunker and did not tell the Parks. So, the bunker was not on the plans of the house at all. The plans, made by the architect himself, would have purposely omitted that detail.
The police had no reason to believe that Mrs. Park, the owner, was somehow unaware of a secret bunker so they would not have been looking for one.
The attacker at the party was believed to be a "homeless man" who wandered in from outside. Nothing pointed to any secret areas in the house.

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[–] Strazdas (2472) 4 years ago

The war paranoia in korea is different than US. its the north korea sending missiles that are people afraid off because the cities are so close than even artillery fire could bomb the most populous city in south korea without north koreans crossing the border. Many people in south korea still, now, are afraid of this possibility. More thanks to Kim Jon Un flexing his nuclear warheads. Being afraid of NK missiles does not date the house to any period. The architecture itself however does seem to be brutalism that was popular in cold war era.

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[–] Strazdas (2472) 4 years ago

The real estate agents didnt knew about the bunker so it would be possible the police wouldnt either.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 2 years ago

I think it does make sense that the bunker was undetected. Here's why:

First, after "Mr. Kim" disappears, they'd search the neighbourhood and try to find information on his whereabouts. Obviously, that search would go nowhere.

There probably would be a search of the house, but if you're a detective, it wouldn't make any sense why the guy would try to hide inside the house. He was seen fleeing the scene. Why would he be inside?

If they did search it, they wouldn't pull aside those shelves, which were hard to move, and didn't look as though they were meant to move.

Elsewhere on this thread, people ask about why the Park family didn't know about the bunker. That is a little harder to buy. The architect built the house, including the bunker. Lived there for however many years. Then the housekeeper moves in and sneaks her husband into the cellar. So, she obviously knows about it. When the architect sold the house, why wouldn't the realtor tell the Parks about the bunker? I don't really know, but it might be possible that the architect didn't mention the bunker. The only other possibility is that the housekeeper intervened in some way. Perhaps she introduced the Parks to the architect, arranged the sale, and showed them around herself - conveniently leaving out the bunker?

So, the police wouldn't have found the dad - in my opinion - because the search would have led them elsewhere and anybody but Sherlock Holmes wouldn't figure out that he was hiding inside the house for days. As for the bunker being a known property, it's hard to conceive that the Parks didn't know, but it's not impossible, at worst, it's a bit of a goof, but only a minor one, I think.

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[–] javie (2216) 2 years ago

Never a dull moment

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