8º – Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003)
A serial killer terrorizes a small Korean village in the year 1986, killing and raping young women on rainy nights. Two detectives are tasked with discovering the killer’s identity, but the mission turns out to be more difficult than it appeared. ‘Memories of Murder’ expresses how certain experiences simply can not be forgotten by the individual. Time here acts as a solidified, immutable and determinant structure. Detectives find themselves trapped in the investigation of the murder even many years after the end of the case.
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7º – The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)
After his girlfriend disappears mysteriously at a gas station, a man works in every possible way to find out what happened to the woman. Hard, ‘The Vanishing’ investigates the figure of obsession and how some facts in an individual’s history are rooted and become immutable.
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