Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
算是首尾呼应吧，偷鸡蛋的故事太有意思。有些差评也是挺可爱，不感兴趣所以看了打低分这是什么逻辑，我不感兴趣的题材我都不会看。zz远比书本上有趣的多
理想不敌现实，离开理想也许会活得乏味，离开现实连活都活不下去。
卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证，高尚是高尚者的墓志铭。只有当光芒不再那么耀眼时，影子才会变浅变淡，而到那个时候，最辉煌的时代已经过去。
竟然还可以，叙事没有太复杂，看着复杂的事情，还是讲的比较清楚。
和南山部长映射朴xx 不同，王者制造映射的金大中，韩国如今的审查制度也是在金任期通过的，薛景求是影片质量保证，如果影子肖有坞先生的悟性便好，站上台前的阴损军师永远都要被清算，可惜坞先生本身也是虚构人物，李善均演那种阴损毒辣没底线的形象还差点火候，有点太年轻了。影子肖被抓薛景求很着急想去解救肖被人拉住劝他说“我知道你有多么在乎他以及他为你做了多少，但是你现在需要了解你的立场，结束独裁实现民主这就是坐在这里每个人都在为之奋斗的目标——但我不能放弃他——然后代替你，党的领导人如何为我们所有人采取行动”中，然后代替你什么意思？
“但我喜欢你站在灯光下的样子”
其实探讨了一个很好的议题：正义是谁的正义？
是嘛 赢了的才是正义 让你听且执行的才叫政府
前面看的不认真，中间人物关系看的有点混乱，前面一般，最后部分还是拉回来了，韩国拍这类政治题材实在太老练了，但这片不在我的点上。但是演员们真的很好，李善均绝了。
这部电影对我们而言，只是一种望梅止渴，无论是政治现实，还是创作现实，因此我们的指手划脚就像得是阉割下的吠月之犬。
在韩国政治惊悚里完全不起眼。最大问题就是太无趣，药剂师角色很突兀，妆化也跟不上，历史感全靠调色。
挺流水的作品，但是什么时候我们能排出这样的流水作品呢？……
你不能把一位政治家刻画成傻白甜，你也不能把一名幕后军师刻画成一心想站在光明下的小镇青年，都太幼稚。
Politics is a bloody hole of mystery. Never get involved into it if you’re trying to keep pure and idealistic.
竟然很好看！不是纯政治让人看不懂，男主永远没等到的梦想看得让人唏嘘
争夺这世界上最危险的职业，总要一些卑劣的人和手段。
精彩的观影体验，真的佩服！！！！！！！~~~~~
李善均表演还胜过薛景求，毕竟一个性格分明的角色更出彩。
7分给电影，多1分给李善均。其实今年的百想应该颁奖给李善均。
阴谋权斗，选举说到底还是靠见不得阳光的手段。基于真实改变这几个字令人害怕
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