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Well actually, if you found a body cut up into pieces but they were all found together (except for one arm), I don't think it would occur to most people that the pieces might be from different people unless there were some obvious differences; that's just not how it is in the real world -- in the real world pieces of a body found together always do belong to the same victim; I'm sure all of us watching also took it for granted, until towards the end -- and you can see from the scene where the two girls were tied up side by side that they are physically very similar (a deliberate clue from the director, I'm sure). This is not at all far-fetched in a country like South Korea, where most people are of the same race and ethnicity.
And in most real-life cases where the cause of death is pretty cut-and-dry, most autopsies are done quickly and the really detailed tests like DNA match are not done, simply because there is no reason for them. Of course it turned out in the movie that matters were not so simple, but the coroner and the police didn't know that at the time.
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thebucketrider
10 years ago
I think the thread starter is right and this is a real weakness in the plot. First, the police DO come up with reasons to examine the fit of the body parts. When the coroner asks his former student what the killer was trying to tell them with his modus operandi, she replies that if she were the killer she would have removed the head and the hands to obstruct identification. Doesn't this imply that they took fingerprints? I think they would do this as a matter of course. Further, when it turns out that the supposed murder weapon they find doesn't match the one used in the crime, the inspector ponders "Did he use this one to kill someone else? Is he a serial killer?" That suspicion would also have led naturally to their checking the fit. In any case, is it ever explained why that arm was separated from the rest of the parts?
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