

Break the Haughty: Detective Park starts off as an arrogant, irreverent and buffoonish figure.Bound and Gagged: All of the victims were gagged with their own bra or stockings.Book Ends: The film starts and ends with a scene at the same corn field.
#MEMORIES OF A MURDERER REDDIT SERIAL#
Black Comedy: Comes out of the fact that it's about a serial killer who had not been found for almost two decades at the time.Bishōnen: The factory worker, who is a major suspect.This becomes the main focus of their efforts and the way they identify the third suspect, but he didn't do it either. One of the officer's observation that the murders always coincide with a certain song request becomes a major angle in the case, based on the cinematic but not particularly logical theory that the song was the killer's pump up song for murder.Park deduces that the killer must have had shaved pubes due to a lack of hair found at the scene, and spends a lot of time at a bath house checking out everyone's junk, to no avail.Various investigators make huge, cinematic leaps of circumstantial evidence that seem elegant but turn out totally wrong. However, while Park eventually matures into a more competent detective, Cho never loses his violent temper, which ends up costing him dearly. Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Detectives Cho and Park fit these respective roles at the start of the film.Anti-Hero: Detective Park and detective Cho, both of whom are willing to rough up suspects if it means getting a confession out of them.
