The Chaser

While its definitely feels like a lesser version of memories of murder, I still think its able to stand on its own by its direction being far more focused on the violence in the act of it then the aftermath and also the way cops and their work begin to melt together within the moral ladder.

Kim yun-seok and ha jung-woon are both excellent in the respective roles they've been given.
For one, its interesting because from the very beginning kim yun-seok's character is not presented as someone respectable in lifestyle, work nor personality yet he's the main character and the one who begins all of this. He is a pimp but he's also the way the film displays the unethical ways cops and detectives can be as he once was a detective.
Do we really want this guy sniffing case after case?

He's not morally unredeemable and in ways he does do sprinkles of good but never are the bad he does ever forgotten as it shouldn't be.
He may have gotten the little girl food or some shit but he still lost her, he smashes his way inside her home and doesn't ultimately find her mother.

Sometimes the movie can feel overblown and annoying when it comes to its pools of blood but it also signifies how people so frequently lose the lives they have to incompetency that comes with many cops.

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