Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault.

Twenty years after a string of murders in rural South Korea, Bong Joon-ho made a movie about the people who tried to catch the country’s first serial killer. What resulted was a harrowing chronicle of a trail slowly going cold, people who were unequipped for the heuristic exercise of catching a home-grown monster, and a government that cared more about defeating unrest than protecting its citizens – all told with the director’s signature balance of light, dark, and the humanity that contains both.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: "Memories of Murder" by Taro Iwashiro from the MEMORIES OF MURDER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 258: MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003)

3:30 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:54 - Watching and rewatching MEMORIES OF MURDER

11:04 - An explicitly political movie

12:45 - Intense watchability despite dense cultural context

21:58 - Small towns and a rot at the heart of a country

40:55 - The ending and a stare that implicates us all

59:18 - The Junk Drawer

1:07:38 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 2003

1:09:37 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

1:16:35 - Cody’s Noteys: Love Joon-ho (Bong Joon-ho movie trivia)