(Lainey: A Halloween recommendation that isn’t Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic…)
Bong Joon-Ho的大二电影，回忆of Murder，是犯罪戏剧类型的杰作，可以说仍然是Bong迄今为止最好的电影。松散地基于Hwaseong系列谋杀案—South Korea’s first recorded instance of serial killings—回忆of Murderfollows the local police effort to catch a killer raping and murdering young women in provincial Korea.回忆of Murderis not a slick, polished procedural, nor a gritty cop drama. It is a character piece, both of the detectives investigating the case and the entire system that enabled a murderer to go undetected for decades (the real case was closed in 2019 when Lee Choon-jae, already in jail for murdering his sister-in-law, confessed to the crimes).回忆of Murderis a case study in ineptitude, casual cruelty, presumption, and frustration. It is a gorgeous film about ugly things, and its beauty and horror are on full display in a new 4K restoration just released on demand.
起初，侦探公园（Song Kang-ho）似乎是一种哥伦布类型，但不一定完全无能为力。When he arrives at a crime scene where a young woman’s body has been stuffed in a culvert, he knows he needs forensics on site, he tries to get the local children to stop playing with the evidence, and later, at another, similar crime scene, he berates a farmer for driving a tractor across tire tracks left in the muddy road. Park has at least some sense of what needs to be done for a murder investigation. But it is rapidly apparent that Park is overwhelmed, unable to control the locals or the press, and he has no real investigative skills beyond staring suspects in the eye and letting his gut decide if they’re murderers. He and he his partner, Cho (Kim Roe-ha), quickly latch onto a local boy, Gwang-ho (Park No-shik), as their prime suspect. But Gwang-ho is a person with cognitive disabilities, and while he does know details of one of the murders, it is apparent Park and Cho prefer him for the crimes simply because he is the local outcast.
回忆of Murder是一个缓慢的燃烧，建立了流派的比喻，并通过磨碎，无情的现实主义将它们放松。在一部好莱坞警察电影中，帕克绝对会有一个神奇的直觉，将他带到杀手，但在致命的现实主义中回忆，帕克的本能是毫无用处的，只会导致他浪费时间，例如Gwang-Ho。他还与Cho一起参加了警察的暴行，击败了Gwang-Ho的供词，后来又是另一名嫌疑人从天花板上划掉。Bong的眼睛回忆is clinical, not emotional, but Park and Cho’s repeated failures stacked alongside their penchant for brutality is unmistakably critical, and one of the besetting sins of the police department. (Another sin is allocating officers to suppress protests, leaving no one available to help during a crucial stage of the investigation.) Far from being a Hollywood-style hero, or even a bumbling Columbo savant, Park is a terrible investigator and a bad cop whose incompetence and viciousness combine in disastrous ways.
然后是从首尔派遣的Seo（Kim Sang-kyung）检查员SEO（Kim Sang-kyung）来帮助调查。他比公园年轻，但对谋杀调查的经验要多得多，他确实对调查施加了一些命令。他将犯罪现场纠缠成秩序，并通过注意到受害者都穿着红色并在下雨的夜晚被杀害来连接杀人事件。他遵循真实的线索，指出“文件不撒谎”，而且，短暂的一刻，他似乎是经典的白骑士，即将解决犯罪的“一个好警察”。但这是1986年，DNA测试仍处于起步阶段。尽管样品忠实地收集了样本，但SEO仍无法比野蛮公园取得更多的进展。回忆of Murder在Hwaseong开始真正的罪行将近20年后，Bong没有对调查进行加糖 - 警察从未抓获杀手，并且从2003年的邦立场上，任何决议似乎都不可能。这种失败和挫败感渗透回忆直到最后一个标志性的公园镜头盯着观众。
回忆is a grey, drab film punctuated by moments of beauty—a strike of red against a green field, a murmuration of birds in the evening sky, even the bodies of the victims are posed not for gruesome shock value but are staged artfully, arranged almost as sculptures.回忆，由Hyung Koo-kim镜头是关于人类最糟糕的最美丽的电影，而新的修复则使Hyung的摄影片丰富。Bong的家庭空间已经完全形成，从警察局到卡拉OK酒吧的每个环境都感觉完全真实而生活。这只会增加电影的可怕现实主义，尽管我们可能想要整洁的好莱坞结局和封闭，但这些事件确实像电影中看到的那样发生在某些地方，当时没有结局，而且没有封闭。
Even as Bong’s profile rose in the west over the last decade,回忆of Murder保持一个很难找到的电影,没有北merican release and spotty, at best, availability as a rental. Now, however, it is available in all its gorgeous, horrible detail, and it is essential viewing for any fan of Bong, Korean cinema, crime dramas, or student of true crime. It is an unflinching case study of every possible way an investigation can be bungled. It is even far from its most often compared Western counterpart,Zodiac，另一部关于未解决系列谋杀案的电影。但是哪里Zodiac为观众提供了可能的解决方案回忆of Murder甚至否认了封闭的假装，而不是以令人困扰的票据结束，这种情况可能会困扰人们。在这种情况下，现实生活比小说更友善，因为Hwaseong杀手最终被抓获。然而，邦的电影永久悬而未决 - 未解决，未解决，不满意。这提醒人们，尽管现在可以解决这种情况，但还没有解决，而且总会有可怕的事情对不值得的事情做，这些事情曾经看不见。回忆of Murderis a ghastly chord that, once struck, echoes forever.
回忆of Murderis now available on demand on all major digital platforms.
