(2012) Perfect Number
(In South Korean with English subtitles)
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Adapted from the novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino, which this is the second of three movie adaptions. The first adaption was released in 2008 called "Suspect X" which was a Japanese adaption that had the same principal but supposedly consist of a different ending. Anyways, it centers on a mathematician instructor, Seok-go (Seung-beom Ryu) living right door to a rather single young lady, BaekHwa-sun (Yo-won Lee) who lives with her niece, Yoon-ah (Bo-ra Kim). As we witness their daily lives, Seok-go appears to be an introvert, who the only time he goes and see his neighbor, Hwa-sun regularly is whenever he goes to pick up his lunch from the place where she works at the which is a luncheon "Good Morning". It becomes complicated as soon as Hwa-sun's abusive ex Kim Cheol-min (Min-ho Kwak) discovers where she lives and breaks into her apartment before he assaults her and her niece some more. Hwa-sun ends up killing him by means of strangulation from the chord of a steaming iron. And because, her neighbor, Seok-go is able to hear everything next door to her, just as soon as she was going to the police about it, Seok go volunteers to not do it, and that he would go and hide the body. And as soon as the body is found, Detective Min-Bum (Cho Jin-woong) is assigned to the case with his ex Hwa-sun becoming the prime suspect. As it becomes a game of cat and mouse between Det Jo and math teacher, Seok-go since they used to be school mates.
SPOIL As it turned out, he purposely left a body for the police to find, only it was soon revealed toward the end that it was not even the same person. That it was actually a homeless person Seok-go had picked up, and then personally had killed. Burying the actual body of Kim Cheol-min into the ocean, while purposing the identity tag for the police to find making them think that it was indeed Hwa-sun's ex. One of the inconsistencies I had was how come the homeless person was not reported missing! And why did the other homeless person ran away! Was there like more than one homeless person paid!!
Adapted from the novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino, which this is the second of three movie adaptions. The first adaption was released in 2008 called "Suspect X" which was a Japanese adaption that had the same principal but supposedly consist of a different ending. Anyways, it centers on a mathematician instructor, Seok-go (Seung-beom Ryu) living right door to a rather single young lady, BaekHwa-sun (Yo-won Lee) who lives with her niece, Yoon-ah (Bo-ra Kim). As we witness their daily lives, Seok-go appears to be an introvert, who the only time he goes and see his neighbor, Hwa-sun regularly is whenever he goes to pick up his lunch from the place where she works at the which is a luncheon "Good Morning". It becomes complicated as soon as Hwa-sun's abusive ex Kim Cheol-min (Min-ho Kwak) discovers where she lives and breaks into her apartment before he assaults her and her niece some more. Hwa-sun ends up killing him by means of strangulation from the chord of a steaming iron. And because, her neighbor, Seok-go is able to hear everything next door to her, just as soon as she was going to the police about it, Seok go volunteers to not do it, and that he would go and hide the body. And as soon as the body is found, Detective Min-Bum (Cho Jin-woong) is assigned to the case with his ex Hwa-sun becoming the prime suspect. As it becomes a game of cat and mouse between Det Jo and math teacher, Seok-go since they used to be school mates.
SPOIL As it turned out, he purposely left a body for the police to find, only it was soon revealed toward the end that it was not even the same person. That it was actually a homeless person Seok-go had picked up, and then personally had killed. Burying the actual body of Kim Cheol-min into the ocean, while purposing the identity tag for the police to find making them think that it was indeed Hwa-sun's ex. One of the inconsistencies I had was how come the homeless person was not reported missing! And why did the other homeless person ran away! Was there like more than one homeless person paid!!