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I'm yet again going to tick the spoiler button because toward the end of the review I am going to give away the ending. SPOILER ALERT

Now, I love Korean movies and that as well as the great reviews this movie has been getting may have been setting me up to watch this with way too high expectations.

For me this movie bombed. a 7 out of 10 in any other movie genre is not a bomb but for me, for South Korean movies 7 out of 10 is a loss.

I found the plot maybe a little to contrived, set out way too precisely and by the time they got to the huge twist I really did not care.

SPOILER BELOW!! The thing that got me the most was that the main character went to so much effort to obscure the murder of the x-husband that he hid the x- husband's body where no one would ever find it. Killed a homeless person the very same way and hid their identity so that the police would think that it was the x-husband's body.

A] The first part of this plan would have done the trick.Hiding the body where it will never be found without killing another person seems like an okay plan. B] No one care about the dead homeless person. "Oh you really love me, you killed a homeless person for me" I think the movie really fails to make a distinction that homeless people are actual people and killing a homeless person is still murder.

This film success to be one of my fav korean film. didnt know that i will cry at the end. /sigh/ i just expect it to be some mistery/thriller movie, but it turns out to be more that that.

Overall I enjoy this movie, it is interesting to follow our protagonist way of thinking and learn how he manage to cover her crime perfectly.

But in the end it is revealed that our protagonist plan is start by disposing the ex-husband body perfectly where no one can possibly find them. Come on if he can do it in first place why do he need to more risky efforts? That fact just turn down my excitement of the entire movie plot. Maybe love did turn someone to be a fool.

(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!!

What to make of this remake? It is the best movie I have seen in years. To me, this is better than the Japanese one. Take the ending, the male character who confessed is asked by the female lead, why he did it. In the Japanese version, he cries unabashedly, in this Korean version, his tears quietly flow.

Rare is a film that tugs at one's brain and heart at the same time. Yes, it is a tearjerker but the way the detective uncovers layer upon layer of evidence leading him to cast suspicion on his mathematician friend is feast for the brain.

Highly recommended. Ten out of ten stars.

I haven't seen the Japanese version, so I don't know about that. But, What can I say about this movie? It was beyond my expectations as I didn't expect it to be a good movie because of its poor rating. But, proving me wrong, it turns out to be really good. I would have rated this 10/10 but Its ending wasn't not quite pleasant to me.

Story follows a math teacher and neighbour whom he is in love at first sight. One day, he hears some voices coming out of her room. As soon as he approaches her, he finds out, she killed her ex abusive husband and wants to confess it to police .But, She is worried about her niece. So, He tries to pacify her and covers everything single handed. Then rest of the story follows investigating the neighbour and planting evidence in favour of her.

If you haven't seen this movie already then avoid strolling down.

Here is the spoilers,

To cover her and niece crime, he dumped the body in the river with a heavy object to prevent it from floating. Moreover,he killed a helpless man at the same way his neighbour did.

Now the question arise why did he kill another man?

It's because he doesn't want leave a single clue that leads the detective to her. Her ex husband dead body had a bite mark which was done by her. Besides,she straggled him, there is a chance of finding finger prints. So,he dumped in river and killed another man to divert detectives attention. If the detective ever finds out about the murder, she won't be blamed for her doing.

Why he turns himself in?

He thought it would be better for her to leave alone. As she misunderstood him and said some unpleasant things. Besides,she loves another man as per his thought. At the end, he planted evidence against himself and turns own self down to let her free and to lead a peaceful life. We can say, he sacrificed himself for love.

This movie is based on Japanese novel called 'Devotion of Suspect X' name itself give a perfect description of main male character. Main character is devoted to the woman who he loves and because of that devotion he covers up murder of her ex husband which she killed under self-defence. It shows what sacrifice man or person can make for his/her love. In the end woman finds out that from the beginning main character was going to take blame for the murder, she runs to him only to find he is already going to jail in prison bus and she clings to the bus, calls his name which makes them both cry but bus does not stop and she falls to the ground crying. It makes you want to know what happened after that was it happy ending? or not. But personally I believe that doesn't matter for there is love, a true love that blooms in the end and that gives people hope. Don't you think so ?