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The Chaser
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The Chaser is a South Korean neo-noir thriller released in 2008 directed by Na Hong-jin.Joong-ho is a dirty detective-turned pimp. When his girls begin to go missing, he assumes that they are being sold by another customer. After using his skills to track him down, he is brought to the police only to discover that the man, Young-min, is instead a sadistic murderer and has been killing his girls. To make matters worse, the police have to let him go after twelve hours if no evidence can be found and Young-min claims that he is holding one of Joong-ho's girls, Mi-jin, captive. Can Joong-ho find evidence in time to bring Young-min to justice and rescue Mi-jin?Set to be remade by the people who brought you The Departed. Not to be confused with The Chase. | |
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Egocentrically Religious | |
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Egocentrically Religious: Young Min, maybe. See Freudian Excuse. | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Mi-jin's daughter. She breaks when she thinks her mother is dead. We never see her reaction when she discovers her mother died for real. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Mi-jin's death is extremely gut-wrenching, and basically every other victim of Young-min, even the poor dog. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Crossing almost in Downer Ending. Young-min is brought to justice but not before bludgeoning Mi-jin to death just after she manages to escape his lair. The end of the film implies that Joong-ho will look after Mi-jin's daughter. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Young-min's bludgeoning of Mi-jin is offscreen. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: In a technicality; Joong-Ho is an ex-cop and more competent than the ones still on the profession. They also fight between themselves because of the reputation in capturing a serial killer would bring. And their own reputation is tarnished and prejudice the investigations because of an incident involving Seoul's mayor, see above. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: Young-Min. He hires prostitutes and kills them using a chisel, and then buries her bodies on church grounds. He's also not above killing everyone and everything else that he perceives as a threat. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: The protagonist is a Jerkass pimp, and apparently an ex Dirty Cop, but he looks A LOT better in contrast to a sadistic serial killer. | |
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Golf Clubbing | |
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Golf Clubbing: Young-min wields a golf club in the final fight. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Young-min acts like a normal, even a bit slow, kind of guy, but the gloves come off at a moment's notice if he needs them to. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Young-min, a Serial Killer who targets Mi-jin and goes against her boss, Joong-ho. | |
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Based on a True Story | |
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Based on a True Story: Young-min is based off of real-life Korean serial killer Yoo Young-chul (who was a cannibal in addition to being a killer). | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: The audience is all too aware that Young Min is himself the neighbourhood lunatic that the shop keeper wants him to protect Mi-jin from. | |
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I Shall Taunt You | |
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I Shall Taunt You: How Joong-Ho escapes police's custody. | |
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Knight Templar | |
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However, it is later discovered he worked in the expansion of a Christian church, where he buries his bodies. That, combined with the method he uses, could imply he's some kind of Knight Templar killing prostitutes because he thinks they're sinful and deserve to be "crucified". That's without counting the religious drawings. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Joong-ho is of the Type III variety. He's a pimp, not a particularly nice guy and treats his prostitutes poorly. Still by the end of the film it's clear he's become emotionally invested in saving Mi-jin and comes to care for her daughter. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: A particularly excruciating example. After spending the bulk of the film bound and gagged, Mi-jin finally frees herself and makes it to a nearby store, where the store owner hides her. However, when Young-min arrives at the store, the owner unwittingly gives Mi-jin away. This results in Young-min murdering both the owner and Mi-jin. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The movie implies that this is played straight initially but it could be subverted: An interrogator guesses that Young-min is sexually impotent and kills victims with a chisel as a penis substitute. Young-min himself angrily denies that's the reason. However, it is later discovered he worked in the expansion of a Christian church, where he buries his bodies. That, combined with the method he uses, could imply he's some kind of Knight Templar killing prostitutes because he thinks they're sinful and deserve to be "crucified". That's without counting the religious drawings. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curbstomp Battle: Joong-ho vs Young-min, Round 1. Round 2 is not so easy. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Invoked as the reason why the police end up releasing Young-Min the first time around. An angry man threw shit at the Seoul's mayor face which, combined with the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that Joong-Ho submitted to Young-Min several times while he was in custody, would make it look like the police are trying to save face for not avoiding the almost first incident by imprisoning an innocent man so the headlines are changed. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: Joong-ho is arrested because of the Jack Bauer Interrogationtechnique he submitted Young-Min to so the police can save face after not obtaining proof of the crimes of the latter. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Desconstructed. The police don't manages to obtain enough evidence to initiate a process, letting the culprit free without charges, and decides to use Joong-Ho as The Scapegoat. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Mi-jin's daughter serves as this for Joong-ho. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Why Joong-ho is no more a cop. He implies that there's still corrupt ones that weren't caught along him. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: Mi-jin spends half of the film in this predicament. | |
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