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)
②:要是手段代替了目的怎麽辦?
读书才是改变一个人，改变其他人的更好的途径
愤怒的公牛只看到红旗，甚至不考虑谁在挥舞它。
看不下去 草，烂账。2022-3-20 23:08:32
前半段挺好看的，娱乐性强，后半段就有点情节不够，情感来凑的意思了。前半段是讲诡计，后半段感觉理应要上升一步，侧重于驭人、权谋，然而却止步于诡计，讲起了虚无缥缈的大义，话里没有话，弦外也没有音，这不是给成年人看的政治。过多的人工光效，刻意的场景色调，突出明暗、强调影子……很像《八佰》里的白马，时常提醒着导演的存在，让人容易出戏。可惜了薛景求，一直努力用表演给人物提供着的多样性，但这个人物到底是如此扁平、不可信。
难以置信竟然有政治家觉得要光明正大赢得选举
另付：电影不要一味追新求快，天知道你会遇到什么不靠谱的字幕组，把朴正熙翻译成朴槿惠的时候我裤子都湿了[微笑]
没想到讲政治的片子结尾可以这么温暖。
拍的真是好，民心可以被如此简单的操纵，政治的背后是如此肮脏。结局拍的好有味道，十几年后，活在影子里的男主心中，依然相信老师的大义。你做了同样的事，只不过所处的立场不同罢了。
字幕有点崩，断断续续看了几次才继续下去，进入到党内竞争那段开始渐入佳境，竞选的阴暗诡计一波接一波。开头和结尾关于偷鸡蛋的隐喻，一下子就把候选人和影子的性格特征诠释的清清楚楚，很有意思。
影片没有紧张刺激的动作戏，着重表现两位主角的观念冲突，一明一暗，李善均略逊于薛景求。
抱着看韩系政治惊悚剧的心态来的，这是什么搞笑娱乐剧啊，不架枪不下药，坐着就是陪你唠
7.3/10 我们赢了，我们就是正义 多么讽刺啊
7.3/10 我们赢了，我们就是正义 多么讽刺啊
这部电影简直就是浪漫啊 韩国为啥能把政治电影拍的这么浪漫 整部电影下来没有一个镜头是多余的 真的是太强了 太强了 我超级中意
下周，就要韩国总统大选了，这部片子真的是应景啊。马基雅维利主义者是不是才是真正的理想主义者？因为他们才会为了理想而不惜一切手段。道德和目的是人类致盲的原因。这部电影中看到了那么多熟悉的面孔，真是感到亲切
故事完整而紧凑，导演的运镜非常讲究，光线明暗教科书级别的调度。双男主的对手戏拳拳到肉，薛景求内敛而又有力的表演，李善均也并不逊色，韩国的政治片真是世界顶级水平。
以金大中为原型的政治类影片，为达目的，不择手段，然而现实只会更加黑暗不堪。薛景求和李善均的组合无比丝滑。
To be or not to be？结果重要还是过程重要？泥浆摔跤能保持清白么？
我们看到的听到的。都是国家想让我们听到的看到的。特别是在中国。
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