The 2011 K-film ‘Murder!’ is quite different to the other K-films I’ve watched so far in that it employs a narrative. The clips show different characters and their perspectives in the lead up to a murder.

Some of the clips are shot from the perspective of a stalker watching a blonde woman, the same blonde woman in another clip is shown as being killed. The audience infers that the person in the ski-mask is the one who killed her as menacing music is played during his clips. The clips aren’t in chronological order which also allows the audience to infer what has occurred and gives them a feeling of suspense.

Even so, I didn’t particularly enjoy this narrative style of K-film. It felt like something I had seen before many times, and didn’t provide any new slants, style or perspective on the ‘murder mystery’. The other K-films I have watched have been more enjoyable as they have documented real life and not staged like ‘Murder!’ They have been more abstract, interesting and unique which makes you want to click through more. Even the K-films that I’ve found more boring than others have at least been documentaries and shown an abstract view of real life.

This has led me to believe that while it is possible to implement a narrative into a K-film, it shouldn’t be encouraged as (in my opinion), it detracts from the notion of real-life. It puts the audience on the outside as they don’t feel like they are experiencing something ‘real’ and feel like they have seen this all before. An important factor in K-films is the inclusion the audience feels when clicking through and that they are experiencing someone else’s reality. This is lost when an explicit narrative is used.