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)
我们早就被战争分裂成了南北，现在只不过是再分裂成西东罢了。
不谈政治（也不懂），奔着两位男主演技去看的，值了，这不得是明年各个大奖的最佳男主双双提名吗。但凡影片里提的上名的配角全是中老年的实力演员啊。
政治面前确实没有什么大义，也没什么人情味，这也是我不怎么喜欢看政治电影的原因。当然，这片里李善均的演绎还是盖过了薛景求。
很一般的片子。
4.5非常精彩的政治题材电影，精彩程度可以比较南山部长，看前还是要对南韩历史有一定了解的。韩国人拍这种题材的片子还真是得心应手，不过真实历史上，这些以漂亮国为主子的所谓民主国家，再如何粉饰也难掩骨子里是条狗的事实。ps：赵宇镇演这种暗搓搓的角色演的太特么好了
徐昌大追求速胜，金云范讲求理想。加起来是绝配，拆开来双输。
他怎么能这么说？
虽然没机会玩这一套 ，还是觉得惊心动魄 ，电影很好看
柏拉图说，
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
保持初心不易，手段和结果哪个更重要？故事不错但做为历史不真。
中间那一段智斗确实很精彩 打光很考究 影子和光明摄影师有明显的区分 被黑暗包裹久了很难走出来吧
真tm高级。国内也有人能写出来，但拍不出来，准确地说播不了。
谁是炸弹客重要？重要的是事后的各方反映：执政党那边愿大事化小对各方都好，在这事上放过徐、放过金，其实也是放过他们自己；金这边竟借机踢掉了徐。
由浅入深、循序渐进的拍着《孙子兵法》，不过还是有一点浅，不知道是怕观众接受理解能力问题，中规中矩。
韩国政治片已经接上犯罪片的棒了，因为可以拍所以层出不穷，李善均和薛景求这一对也很有火花，可看度大大提升
糟糕的翻译，复杂的人名，地名，导致我没有完全看懂，但一大部分归结于个人对韩国的历史不太熟悉
演技一流的二流政治剧情片。
其实镜头给的蛮主观的 不过主观也是为了向商业妥协 很神奇的政治电影 很有趣的相映成趣 人物的复杂和立场都立起来了 不过改编故事到底有没有故事本身精彩值得思考
韩国前总统金大中与影子幕僚严昌禄的历史改编。
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