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“ | Do you really want to save him? Do you really want to save his life? | „ |
~ The Kidnapper |
The Kidnapper is the main antagonist of the 2007 South Korean live action film Voice of a Murderer.
He was played by Kang Dong-won.
Biography[]
His entire life is a mystery.
After abducting 9-year-old Han Sang-woo, the only son of well-known DBC news anchor Han Kyung-bae, from the playground near his apartment complex late at night and later makes his demands via phone call: 100 Grand before warning if they do not follow any one of his rules their son dies. Han's wife (despite being told not to do so) secretly reports the kidnapping to the police when her husband goes to make the exchange, and he unwittingly blows the assigned undercover officer's (Detective Kim) cover and the kidnapper changes the money drop to another day and threatens to hurt the boy. After failing to arrest the kidnapper and rescue Sang-woo, the police start a secret forensics-investigation unit with Kim assigned to lead it.
Suspects have been questioned. But, the police only seem to bungle the case as evidenced by their inability to trace phone calls from the unidentified kidnapper who keeps on escaping their dragnet. Kim who stays close to Han is also briefly kidnapped and tortured in a botched operation. Upon ecaping with the 100Gs, he fools Han by playing a voice recording of Sang-woo to shake him down for another 100Gs. After weeks of torturous phone calls, taunting messages and complicated instructions, not to mention false promises, the boy's lifeless body is found near the Han River, who had having been found with duct tape on his mouth, hands and feet bound with a clothes line. An autospy suggests he had been suffocated.
In the end of his crime spree, the kidnapper has destroyed a family while he is not even detected amongst the populace.
Personality[]
The Kidnapper is a sadistic, cold, calm and twisted person. He takes pleasure in taunting the victim's parents and keeps on asking questions about police involvement suggesting paranoia and asks if they want their son to die and if they don't love him making him sadistic. He also only talks in the same calm and collected manner, and also seems to be quite cunning as he is able to evade police and always stays one step ahead of them.