a5c7b9f00b 1986. In a rural district of South Korea, two women have been recently raped and murdered. Working on the case are detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo. Their efforts are impeded by some sloppy crime scene procedure by the police. Their methods of solving cases are also quite basic, essentially amounting to beating confessions out of suspects. All this leads to nothing and the police chief brings in a more sophisticated and intelligent detective from Seoul, Seo Tae-yoon. With his arrival the methods improve but they still don't have the killer. Then another woman is found murdered and a pattern emerges. In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. It is one of those movies that leaves you with a certain kind of emptiness. When you dedicate a huge portion of our life to something futile , you get addicted to it. It is really hard to let it go. You keep on chasing it to the end of your life. Some people really lack that kind of dedication and goal in life. I guess I do. That is why I found the movie so amazing.The movie connects to you on so many different emotional levels. Yet the movie teaches us indirectly, that there is a certain time in life, we need to learn how to let things go.No matter how hard it is. And things like this will define our life and what we are. It is the kind of movie you will like to think about long after you have seen it and wonder about life. I was a little disappointed with this film, because it had been so highly rated in here! Although it was set in the 1980's and science wasn't what it is today, there were still some things I was surprised they didn't follow up on…particularly the line from the suspect with the burned face, "He threw me in the fire when I was young." That could have been a great lead for them. I did think some of the film was funny and odd, like our main detective sitting under a tree with an IV hanging from the tree branch above him. It was good, and maybe I am spoiled by American detective type films, but I still give it 5 out of 10 stars. A powerful, slow-burning portrait of human fallibility.
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