wheredunit

noun

wheredunit

noun

1

A type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.

"The Chaser" is less whodunit than wheredunit, perversely withholding the location of Young-min's home from everyone but the viewer, who gets to know Seoul's Mangwon district quite intimately as Jung-ho, his bumbling sidekick Meathead (Koo Bon-woong) and other cops run around it in infuriating circles.2008 May 17, Justin Chang, “The Chaser”, in Variety:

Related terms: howdunit, whodunit, whydunit

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