One Of The Best Korean Movie In This Year
"Murder Report" is a 2025 South Korean psychological film about a desperate journalist who receives a phone call from an unknown person claiming to be a serial killer and wants to interview him.The film is a kind of film (one room) that such films are characterized by a stable environment and relies on dialogue and flashbacks (characters' past) to create an emotional and enjoyable environment series) is
The film gets into another mold in the second half when the events and the stories of the characters are generally connected and the director takes us into a whirlwind of emotional events and stories that completely turn the story around and offer us a wonderful plot twist
After All , Murder Report is a very good and unique film that, in my opinion, was one of the best Korean films of the year and absolutely worth seeing and trying out
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When Justice Breaks, the Mind Speaks in Extremes
Murderer Report (2025) is not a comfortable film, nor does it intend to be. It is a work that forces the viewer to confront what society often prefers to ignore: moral erosion, unresolved pain, and the fragility of the systems we call justice. Beneath the surface of a psychological thriller lies a far deeper meditation on responsibility, guilt, and the limits of human reparation.One of the film’s most powerful pillars is the figure of the doctor—a character who resists any simplistic division between good and evil and instead inhabits a morally complex, deeply human space. His cause does not arise from impulse or empty cruelty, but from an accumulation of silence, negligence, and wounds that were never acknowledged. From a psychological and psychiatric perspective, his behavior can be understood as the extreme manifestation of chronic trauma: when pain is not heard, the psyche seeks desperate ways to give it meaning.
The film does not superficially justify his actions, yet it contextualizes them with an honesty that is deeply unsettling. And it is precisely there that a strong, almost unavoidable support for his cause emerges—not for the violence itself, but for the cry that precedes it. Murderer Report poses a disturbing but necessary question: what happens when the system fails repeatedly, and justice ceases to be a refuge, becoming instead a broken promise?
From a psychiatric standpoint, several characters display clear signs of emotional dissociation, internalized guilt, and extreme defense mechanisms. The journalist, for instance, embodies the conflict between professional ethics and a dangerous fascination with the abyss; her gradual emotional destabilization reveals how prolonged exposure to horror can erode even those who believe themselves to be mere observers. The doctor, in contrast, represents a mind that has already crossed that threshold—a psyche that has rationalized pain as method, not out of cruelty, but out of moral exhaustion.
The boundary between justice and revenge is portrayed as dangerously thin. The film suggests that both are born from the same place—the desire for balance—but diverge the moment society decides whom it listens to and whom it silences. When there is no reparation, revenge disguises itself as justice; when there is no justice, revenge becomes the last possible language.
Visually restrained and narratively tense, Murderer Report avoids excess and opts for an oppressive, almost clinical atmosphere that reinforces its psychological reading. Every dialogue carries weight, every silence accuses. There are no clear heroes or absolute villains—only fractured human beings attempting to make sense of the irreversible.
Ultimately, this is not a film about crime, but about consequences. About what happens when pain is archived, when victims become statistics, and when those who once sought to heal are later branded as monsters. Murderer Report unsettles because it offers no easy answers, but that is precisely its value: it reminds us that true violence often begins long before the final act, in collective indifference.
It is a work that demands to be viewed with critical empathy, with an open mind, and with the courage to accept that sometimes the line between order and chaos does not reside in the criminal—but in the system that created him.
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One of the sweetest Psychopath movies ever!
Generally psychopath movies rely on a lot of tropes for a tight thriller. Murderer Report thankfully avoids most of them. It does a good job of reeling in the viewer. And the aesthetics of cinematography, background score, sparing dialogues and obviously great acting swing a home run once you're invested.Jung Sung-il & Cho Yeo-jeong play their parts to perfection vibrating tension and the writing in-tandem sews up the mystery to keep it from getting boring. That's what the real triumph of this movie is in my opinion, the mystery and the twist, I didn't see it coming and neither will anyone because the writing throws a few red-herrings here and there.
Finally the short-time ensures no time is spent unnecessarily on a back on forth on morality which the psychopath is clearly unbothered about.
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