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Bong Joon Ho’s startling true-crime drama. OCTOBER 23, 1986. A serene golden autumn morning. Detective Park (Song Kang-ho) peers into a murky concrete trench on the edge of a rice paddy. Inside, swarming with bugs, a contorted corpse, tied and gagged. Oblivious to the horror, kids play with the woman's clothes tossed into the reeds. Enjoy that golden light while you can, because after its prologue, Memories Of Murder descends into proper darkness. The shadows in the trench seem to spill like oil, smearing the visuals to ashen sludge and sinking its cops into a blind abyss. Stalking the backwaters of Hwaseong city in the 1980s, South Korea's first serial killer took the lives of ten women. …
摘自《帝国》(Empire)2026年8月刊,Simon Crook。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。