An innocent man is forced to confess even though he's innocent after being tortured by the police Cho Yong-koo, the most violent of the small town detectives, loses his leg after fighting with a bunch of civilians who were tired of his authority abuse Baek Kwang-ho, an initial intelectually disabbled suspect who ended up being a crime witness dies due to a series of mishandlings during his interrogation that made him scared of the police crew and Seo Tae-yoon grows more and more frustrated as the investigation gets harder despite all the clues the policemen get during it. However, the way things operate in the small city intoxicates the investigators and the investigation. While 2 of the three detectives follow the status quo of the town, using violent and non-precise methods of interrogation and investigation (like torturing suspects and "looking deep into their eyes" to prove their inocence) to catch the killer, Seo Tae-yoon, a detective who comes from Seoul tries to solve the crime with more evidential and professional methods that slowly makes the investigation progress. The story follows a group of detectives trying to solve a series of violent murders of women in a small town. I've just wacthed Memories of a Murder and, other than confirming the fact that the Korean cinema industry is currently my favorite one worldwide and that Bong Joon-ho had been dropping masterpieces for a decade before parasite, has made me remember an old saying from East Asia that says "Small town, big hell".
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