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)
入世与出世、经学与科学、义理与实证，两个人生目标逆向而行的人，终究会因共同的良知而趋于一致。韩国电影人在古代名人传记电影中拍出了现代视野。
#2022.12#虽然依旧忍受不了印度电影的歌舞，不过好在这次没有舞了…选材完胜，这才是电影该有的样子，不知道在生活的土壤是否还能看到，还是越来越红呢？影片还是有一些反转，看的直呼过瘾，为最低下的人民感到悲哀同时又为他们在影片中的所作所为，不被黑恶侵蚀而骄傲
本以为只是体现印度底层人民苦难以及人权律师如何为底层人民奔走，没想到探案的部分也很精彩。这个片子看着真的太惨了啦！！！以及，依旧是印度电影，不惨的时候还是有歌舞。
师徒的分歧是必然且无法回避的。昌大非得向上向外飞过，才能看懂兹山沉寂的实在的美。错过，误解，悔恨，都注定无可逃避
开始以为是圣人贞德，后来开始舌尖上的黑山➕编舟记，甚至变成了鸡血日韩职场剧既视感，这个士大夫精神内核看起来东方西方传统现代宗教民生啥都想说一点，说出来又像是喊口号。
铁肩担道义，为弱鸣不平。正值某地案件天天上热搜期间看这片，提醒自己这个崩塌中的世界还有普世价值
主要出戏点：配乐像搜“诙谐”找的罐头音乐，“西巴”之高频大致可推对话也不怎么样
印度很多现实主义题材的作品都足以改变印度法律，而且都是当你在看本片的时候，电影里控诉的事件依然在现实中发生。
…拍得太模式化脸谱化了，社会性+足量的煽情+戏剧化。
质性自然，非矫厉所得。饥冻虽切，违己交病。尝从人事，皆口腹自役。于是怅然慷慨，深愧平生之志。犹望一稔，当敛裳宵逝。
3.5吧，但确实到不了4，故事还可以，应该算是读书人的浪漫了。但是其实剧情设置得很套路。
前半段真好哦~淳朴的民风，人文气息浓厚，配以水墨画风~轻盈而美好~但是下半段昌大入仕之后，又转为韩式国类型片的套路之中，轻盈不再~心中充满理想的少年当然不能理解看破本质的先生，大可以不用这么激烈的呈现~有点遗憾
总体还是拍的偏“好看”了。
有思考、没惊喜 也不太需要 很像《大明劫》前后那两年的国产片
质性自然，非矫厉所得。饥冻虽切，违己交病。尝从人事，皆口腹自役。于是怅然慷慨，深愧平生之志。犹望一稔，当敛裳宵逝。
敢用黑白的都是高人，比肩聂隐娘和亲爱的同志。无彩是一种志士风骨，而全片唯一出现的蓝色给了青鸟和大海，兹山风骨就是深邃海中沉默隐居的礁岛，若铨和昌大的“父子情“相隔山海虽无多路，但青鸟殷勤为探看。对于“父子”的矛盾，电影看似没有给出和解的答案，但历史对赛先生的地位自有定论。近两百年过去了，腐儒与公权的媾和依旧在伤害无数的昌大，而东亚依旧需要兹山鱼谱。
像是说出了我去年决心去藏区的理由。可是，电影并没有回答，回到黑山岛的昌大，如何面对依旧难逃的社会桎梏呢？
读书人的困境：是秉承理想，还是同流合污？是为了小家，还是为了大家？黑暗但也有人性的光芒，风趣幽默，很有温度的一部电影。
最后一场高潮戏的爆发力值得学习。剪辑不错。
质性自然，非矫厉所得。饥冻虽切，违己交病。尝从人事，皆口腹自役。于是怅然慷慨，深愧平生之志。犹望一稔，当敛裳宵逝。
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