Writing the past to fight Alzheimer’s disease: Masculinity, temporality, and agency in Memoir of a Murderer

Abstract

Eun-hee the young policeman Tae-joo, Byung-soo Tae-joo is a serial killer as well. save his Byung-soo must fi ght both Tae-joo as well as his forgetting. Th the fi lm’s story is constructed and structured around two narrative levels: the fi lm’s narrative and Byung-soo’s diary writing in which he his memories (and In addition, embedded within the narrative of the fi lm, Alzheimer’s disease a plot device to create suspense by erasing blurring the limits between reality and fi ction. the Alzheimer’s disease experience of the main character is used to shape the viewing experience itself; the is sure if what is presented on screen is Byung-soo’s imaginative rewriting/ the past and present or the events as they happened and are happening in the present. Th e fi lm, the the viewer to identify the main character, the viewer experience memory loss as Byung-soo is experiencing it, thereby another of uncertainty about