I Do Movies Badly: Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder is a story that’s relatively simple in concept, but complex in execution because of how Bong Joon-ho skillfully blends emotions together within his characters and his scenes.
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It’s been some time since I watched this, but I recall enjoying it. It was a thoroughly cynical take on the usual story of heroic detectives vs dastardly criminal, what Crooked Timber would classify under “The Unsung Romance of Incompetence”:
http://crookedtimber.org/2014/08/05/the-unsung-romance-of-incompetence/
In fact, the commenter “Justin” did so in that very thread.
There was no victory for the detectives here, “hollow” or otherwise.