Voice of A Murderer

I watched a Korean DVD brought by my boss last night. The title was Voice of A Murderer. Before seeing it, I thought it was just so so :)

The film which was released this year was starred by Sol Kyung Gu, Kim Nam Joo, Kim Yong Chul, and Kang Dong Won. It is based on true story of the abduction of Lee Hyung Ho in South Korea in 1991.

Here is the plot I took from Wikipedia.

One day, the only son of famous news anchor, Han Kyung-bae, disappeared without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the nine-year-old boy’s mother, Oh Jisun, demanding $100,000 as ransom. The police assign veteran detective Kim Wook-jung to the case and assemble a top-notch task force under his command. However, the kidnapper constantly outwits the police traps and keeps calling the parents with yet another instruction for the money drop. The only clue the police and the parents have is the kidnapper’s voice recorded on the tape; his cultured, but emotionless voice, which often gives anyone who listens goose bumps. The parents become restless and angry as days turns into weeks, and one day, when the kidnapper calls HAN Kyung-bae with another set of instructions, he turns the situation completely around and demands a direct confrontation. He starts giving instructions to the kidnapper, and…Until now the killer is not yet caught.

I thought the film is for teenagers, but it's very serious. It does not show how the child was killed, but a series of scenes of how the kidnapper terrorized the parents of the missing child for 44 days. Forty four days of restlessness with high hopes that the child was still alive, of hard strives to ensure themselves that they should not give up their hopes and efforts to get their child back. It's very touching...mixing emotions...and tragic...to find him dead...finally....
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