Before the writer and director Bong Oonun-ho conquer Palm D'Er and engulfed the Academy Awards with his masterpiece of a military military military genre of the Korean cinema, "Parasite", he created one of the various series killers of all time. The film is followed by two detectives, one of a small Korean city (frequent song by Bong, Kang-ho), which follows his intentions of the intestines, and the other is a more clinical researcher than the Great City of Seoul (Kim Sang-Kiong), as they are exploring a series of terrible rape and murder.

The real crime genre is packed with films that level and simplify the investigative process of producing the road, a happy ending. That is why "memories of the murder" stand out as one of the few films to admit how little we really understand about evil lurking in the dark. It carries all the features of director Bong style, from its precisely made cinematography and unique interference of comedy and horror, which is why it is not just one of the worst films for serial killers of all time but and one of the best thrillers of the 21st centuryperiod.

But the heritage of the film is not just his status like Official member of the criteria collection. It is also based on a true story, whose narrative has changed dramatically in the 20th anniversary of its publication.

The true story that inspired "Murder Memorations" begins in 1986, when the small village of Hwase -in -law was hit by a series of sexual assaults and killings of women throughout the city. For five years, 10 women were killed, from school girls to older women, and the city was panicked.

Without modern technology like Blood tests and surveillance cameras To help in the case, South Korean police had difficulty finding any waters in the case, and in this rural town without street lights, the people were saturated with fear and paranoia. The years were dragging and with their exhaustive efforts failed to produce any results, a local repair was arrested and recognized on one of the killings. Police did not believe he was a truly serial killer, claiming he was a copy, tacit recognition from the authorities that the case would remain unsolved for the near future.

This is where the story of "memories of the murder" gathers, adapting the story of the small village attacked by a serial killer, retaining the choice of victims of the mysterious individual as he invented the real people involved. By the time the loans turn to the film, detectives have made any progress in finding the killer, and all men involved are wrapped in guilt that they have failed to keep their community safe. It is tragic and persecuting, but 16 years after the film was premiered to review the views, the story took a dramatic turn when police announced that, after all these years, they found the real killer and he proved to be right under noses all the time.

For more than three decades, the killer was known only as "Shwasseong's Killer", but in 2019, police managed to put a person and the name of the responsible man: Lee Jun-J.. Thanks to the judicial evidence, the police managed to identify him as a killer, at that moment he admitted that not only the 10 original murders, but four more murders that were not previously thought to be connected.

At the age of 57, Lee was already in jail for life in prison for killing and raping his then 18-year-old daughter-in-law at the time he made his confession. You may think that this conviction should have been an obvious relationship with Hwasseong's killings, and Lee agrees, telling si -N -N:

"I still don't understand (why I wasn't suspected.) Crimes happened around me and I didn't try to hide things hard, so I thought I was going to catch easily. There were hundreds of police forces. I was pushing into detectives all the time, but they always asked me about the people around me."

This police behavior is a central element of "memories of murder", which shows police officers mainly incompetent in their investigation, prone to suspected when they are all out of ideas.

For his part, Bong Oonun-Ho did not say much about the traumatic incident in the heart of one of his most famous films. He was asked to share his thoughts on prior publication of "Parasite" in Los Angeles (through La times), in which he talked about how the killer's ambiguity was at the top of his mind while filming the film:

"When I was filming the movie, I was very iousubopitic and I was also thinking a lot about this killer. I wondered what it looks like. The only one I couldn't meet was, of course, the killer."

Bong continued to applaud the police for their "infinite effort to find the culprit". But even now that the case has been resolved, remains of fear and doubt remain, and for people of South Korea who have endured years of heinous murder and the audience who are looking at "memories of the murder", recalled how fragile our lives are.