Hey Task Force, this is Jillian. Here's a little sneak preview of our episode of movie club where we discuss one of my favorite movies, memories of murder. Enjoy.

Jillian, you want to take it away? Yes, here we go. So this is Bong Joon Ho's second film. Finally streaming. Okay, it wasn't streaming for a while. I only saw this this year when our local film group Hyper Real projected it.

So really cool.

It's the first of Bong Joon Ho and Song Kong Ho's long filmmaking relationship.

They've made many movies together after this.

And I don't know if y'all looked this up, but it's based on a real case.

The Hua Song serial murders at the time were unsolved. So these happened between

1986 and 1991. They're pretty much the first recorded or like known serial murders in

Korea. So it was pretty big, you know, for them. A lot of this stuff is on location and sets and costumes and props are all like really

intricate to show this time period because during the 80s, South Korea was going through a huge

change. And I guess like every era is huge change. But this time it was pretty big because there was

like a military coup with martial law, tons of corruption, protests.

Yeah, it's a little bit of that in the movie.

Yeah, limited resources and just poverty.

And Bong Joon wanted to communicate that that aspect of the sociopolitical atmosphere was just as much of a culprit in this case as the murderer himself.

Absolutely.

And yeah, we see how that plays into like affecting their ability to solve the case.

At the time too, there was like, you know, changes within people were trying to look at police as, you know, they were getting more concerned with police brutality.

So we see that as well.

Yeah. I think like in the beginning, I was like, this is kind of ridiculous.

I mean, you could tell that like it affected a lot of things, right?

Because the people had no respect for the police whatsoever.

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