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avid Fincher or Bon ^,g Joon =[Ho]+.*` before him, t`[=alented debut filmma;=#[ker ((L=ado ` K vat;aniya uses );the _@concept of police dete].ctive v :s ser/,ial ki##`ller#)) ,\for an excit%\ingly stylised, ma
cabre  _and haunting narr[a\) tive,% _(th?a@]^t( ulti#`mat/(ely]( revolves\/
 around the%;_ identity of an er a@ [\#in this _*c^ase, the la 
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`he R,ussian :Hannibal%,@ Le
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iy@_/:a and)# s+,creen$?.
writer Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive ps! `ychological puzzle, jumpin ,(g b/
$ack and  ,for^[;th? in time, t+_o revea.l e:!^ver $new-possibl#-e motives [fo@$r the ac] =tio#:n
_s o(f all the protagonis](ts. It al%\%l[$ s:#tarts in 1990, when Detective I )ssa Dav#ydov is celebrating^ his promotion@? a, nd receives a c@*al_/l, repor_.(#=ting a-?  crime ()
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k: s prec[ [i[sely like th:e ones of the se`r*=ial !\killer tha:*/t h@=e$  famo-usly(_+ captur+ed,. som\(e;?) years before . ..