Tae Ho
In the shining galaxy of A.N.JELL, Bangtan Sonyeondan & CNBLUE
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Jang Keun Suk, you bad boy!
wow, finally got around to watch this.
i am honestly happy that this movie was made and it stirred enough interest with the public to re-open the investigation and have the real murderer caught and extradited back to South Korea for sentencing after 18 years have passed. amazing what movies or art pieces can do to help serve justice.
when i watched the movie, i really could not understand why was the victim suddenly murdered brutally in the bathroom of that Burger King restaurant, i mean of all places for God sake. turned out i watched a commentary video about this case and they reaffirmed that the victim was truly innocent, and he was simply 'at fault' for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. my heart truly breaks at this. i mean we can literally say no one deserved to be killed unless that person is as evil as a satan, and for someone to be killed just for the fun of it. it's beyond despicable. literally, there are so many possible motives for a murder like revenge, jealousy, robbery, accidental manslaughter and etc, but to have no exact motive to kill someone and do it so brutally like that...is just insane to think about!
i am not someone who do well with these kinds of stories. the movie is as straightforward as it gets (i mean it's not an original script, rather a story that was developed from research to the case materials), almost a total re-enaction of what happened to the two main suspects. i don't care much about the other guy, but i thought Jang Keun Suk played the character of Robert J. Pearson really well especially when he acted like he was the real culprit all along, behind the prosecutor's back. that insinuation of him being the real killer is quite remarkable because after the DNA confirmation, the investigators indeed confirmed that he was the real culprit back then. this is Jang Keun Suk's first dark role he has played and i don't think he has played something like this after it. i hope he can do something similar to this in the future.
the scene when the youngsters were at the Burger King restaurant hanging out the night before the murder happened, so many vulgar words were spoken that i thought my ears were bleeding from hearing them. can never get used to this much swearing in Korean movies, LOL.
to the real-life victim Jo Joong Pil, R.I.P. and i also hope that your family can at least find peace that the real killer has finally been caught. truly, utterly heartbreaking.
i am honestly happy that this movie was made and it stirred enough interest with the public to re-open the investigation and have the real murderer caught and extradited back to South Korea for sentencing after 18 years have passed. amazing what movies or art pieces can do to help serve justice.
when i watched the movie, i really could not understand why was the victim suddenly murdered brutally in the bathroom of that Burger King restaurant, i mean of all places for God sake. turned out i watched a commentary video about this case and they reaffirmed that the victim was truly innocent, and he was simply 'at fault' for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. my heart truly breaks at this. i mean we can literally say no one deserved to be killed unless that person is as evil as a satan, and for someone to be killed just for the fun of it. it's beyond despicable. literally, there are so many possible motives for a murder like revenge, jealousy, robbery, accidental manslaughter and etc, but to have no exact motive to kill someone and do it so brutally like that...is just insane to think about!
i am not someone who do well with these kinds of stories. the movie is as straightforward as it gets (i mean it's not an original script, rather a story that was developed from research to the case materials), almost a total re-enaction of what happened to the two main suspects. i don't care much about the other guy, but i thought Jang Keun Suk played the character of Robert J. Pearson really well especially when he acted like he was the real culprit all along, behind the prosecutor's back. that insinuation of him being the real killer is quite remarkable because after the DNA confirmation, the investigators indeed confirmed that he was the real culprit back then. this is Jang Keun Suk's first dark role he has played and i don't think he has played something like this after it. i hope he can do something similar to this in the future.
the scene when the youngsters were at the Burger King restaurant hanging out the night before the murder happened, so many vulgar words were spoken that i thought my ears were bleeding from hearing them. can never get used to this much swearing in Korean movies, LOL.
to the real-life victim Jo Joong Pil, R.I.P. and i also hope that your family can at least find peace that the real killer has finally been caught. truly, utterly heartbreaking.
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