Dir: Bang Eun-jin, 2005
Mon 22 May 2006, 8:30pm, Prince Charles Cinema
A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could signal the first in a serial murder, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of the toy character “Princess Aurora.” A veteran detective, OH suspects an attractive and lively woman named JUNG Soon-jung as being the murderer. However, he does not tell anyone — not even his partner — that JUNG also happens to be his ex-wife. Again and again, the Princess Aurora sticker is found… each with a dead body. However, the remaining question is why? What is the murderer’s purpose?
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A whydunnit rather than a whodunnit. From the start, the perpetrator of these rather fun and sometimes gruesome murders is not in doubt, and the film sustains interest by drawing you into why the murders are committed. At first you think the motivation is a rather extreme vigilantism, but as the film progresses the motive becomes a bit clearer. The detailed explanation of why each of the victims had to meet their end is deliberately unravelled too fast so that you feel you’ve had a bit of a mental workout. But in the end this film is amusing rather than shocking. The angelic murderess (hmm – where have you come across one of those before..?) says early on in the film: “I’m learning to drive a crane”. It later becomes clear why. Not the greatest Korean film I have seen, and at best an average or below-average shock-horror film. It’s tailor made for Tartan Asia Extreme.
Great!! Up there with the recent bests such as Oldboy and the Vengeance trilogy.
One of the best they have shown from Asia in their recent Asia Extreme series!