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)
追求自由的故事总是让人向往、感动。Captain, what's the price of freedom? I don't know. Everything.
这个片的nb之处在于，它展示了南非种族隔离的极端自我防卫机制，哪怕你是身居高位的白人，威胁了这个体制也得死。
今年到现在最暖心的一部电影，三浦小天使真的太可爱了吧~
一开始的枪战其实拍得不错，但全片的问题在于有点前后不搭调，释放曼德拉的诉救求是半中间才出现的，所以片子有了割裂感。
拥护信仰没有对错，但如果是存在对不同信仰的排他性，而在追求信仰的过程中滥杀无辜，就是罪恶的。
三星半，中规中矩。基于真实故事能促使去了解历史
真实事件改编，节奏感非常好，全程无尿点。
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矛盾解决得太轻松……也许是因为前面已经很难过了，所以不能再这么难过下去。几度看不下去，bl融进更多东西，就变得全不浪漫，满是艰难。不过他俩好好看……
说得还是会比较隐晦一些
多番博弈人心易，细察失言毙叛徒。
看完结局想高歌一曲《光辉岁月》，虽然是真实故事改编，但总感觉导演对三个人的动机做了美化处理，自由战士为了黑人平权行动失败恰好被逼到银行，难道不是黑人打劫银行被困然后开始高喊“释放曼德拉”吗？虽然整部电影都是围绕释放曼德拉展开，但实际电影拍的挺像《热天午后》的。
今年看过最提气的片子了，看得好气，好燃。motherfucker politicians
Everything.
结尾的红光有点血色浪漫啊 for freedom
节奏有点慢，这类劫持人质片本应该让人紧张的透不过气，我可几乎全程边玩手机边看完的
神尾枫珠老司机也下海，不过感觉没有在恋之月里那么投入情感。（都22年了依旧沉迷恋之月。（话说好多靠脸老师里的同学演员啊，神尾一会学生一会老师的，真的可以啊。（如果有BL星球，那神明一定磕疯了。（还有就是BL是BL，现实是现实啊……
最后那个初中生?还挺意外的，本来看前面他俩对话还以为只是安藤的幻想分裂人格啥的，，
破坏任务生变故，藏身银行遭围捕。
Everything.
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