kmovie: 4th Period Murder Mystery

[meganbmoore]

Class good-boy and the top student in his school, Jeong-Sun (recognizable to some here as the younger version of the lead in Legend) walks into an empty classroom to find the corpse of the class slimeball, who he was recently seen fighting with. Like all people of intelligence, he picks up the bloody murder weapon (it’s ok, about half a dozen other people do, too) then wipes the blood off on his shirt. Saving him from a quick trip to jail is Da-Jeong, the mystery-obsessed creepy girl in the class (she’s like a mix between Nancy Drew and Sunako from Wallflower) who realizes he’ll be the main suspect quicker than he does, and says they have to find the real killer before class ends, and other people find the body. This, clearly, is a thinly veiled excuse to have teenagers frantically running all over campus and a somewhat convoluted plot that probably won’t hold up if you’re allowed to stop and think about it.

This watches a bit like the pilot of a mystery jdrama (one of my favorite genres) though the beginning is a bit odd and slow (and aspects of the final scene cause serious facepalming for me). Some parts really don’t hold up to close examination, but it’s fun to watch. Here’s the trailer. (No idea if the last part is supposed to be silent, or if it’s just this video.)