Tell Me Something
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Tel mi sseomding |
| McCune–Reischauer | T‘el mi ssŏmding |
| Directed by | Chang Yoon-hyun |
| Produced by | Koo Bon-han Chang Yoon-hyun |
| Written by |
Kong Su-chang In Eun-ah Shim Hye-won Kim Eun-jeong Chang Yoon-hyun |
| Starring |
Han Suk-kyu Shim Eun-ha |
| Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
| Cinematography | Kim Sung-bok |
| Edited by | Kim Sang-bum |
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116 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Tell Me Something (Hangul: 텔 미 썸딩) is a 1999 South Korean Thriller-Horror-Crime film directed by Chang Yoon-hyun. It was an early South Korean film to find success abroad as part of the Korean Wave, and was selected to appear in the 2001 New York Korean Film Festival.
Tell Me Something is a blood soaked film, although much of the violence occurs off screen. The story begins with a detective Jo returning to work after the death of his mother. He is accused of accepting money from a dubious source to pay for his mother’s medical treatment. He denies the accusation but his career is under a cloud and the film never definitely clears up whether he is innocent of this charge. (Although Jo does seem to allude to this to his friend, Detective Oh, which suggests he is willing to compromise legality in order to follow the higher morality of caring for a loved one.)
Detective Jo is soon put on the case of a serial killer who amputates the limbs and heads of his victims and seems to enjoy mixing up the body parts – swapping a new part into the body of each new victim. The trail of victims leads to beautiful young woman, Chae Soo-yeon, daughter of a famous painter. She was named as the next of kin of one of the victims, but it quickly becomes apparent that she knew each of the victims and had dated them in the past. Soo-yeon is an enigmatic character whose past is gradually revealed over the film as she becomes close to Detective Jo. Her only close friend, Seung-min a doctor whom she has known since high school, reveals that in the past Soo-yeon had tried to kill herself several times. This apparent fragility and victim status is subtly picked up by a painting in her country retreat which depicts her as Ophelia drowning (a recreation of the Pre-Raphaelite painting of the same name by Millais, seen earlier in the film). The body count mounts and Soo-yeon moves into Detective Jo’s apartment for safety signalling a growing trust between them. The relationship remains chaste if not quite professional with Jo acting as a protective knight. His complete trust is shown by him giving his gun to Soo-yeon and showing her how to use it.
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