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)
一个蚍蜉撼树的故事，改编得舞台剧一样，还挺有意思的，尽管戏剧张力没有达到我的预期。
男主是个完全没见过的新人，Jaeden弟弟都长这么大了|･ω･｀)还是娃娃脸
全程无尿点，深度稍欠。
恐怖分子太有道义了，但凡狠点可能都结果不一样
反正就嗨呗。每次看这种片都为自己校园时期没疯一把感到遗憾。
有些人至死捍卫的只是身份上的认同与肤色平等，但这就是一种伟大的信仰。自由的代价是什么？一切。
适合安静地从头看到尾的偏严肃题材，一部劫持人质题材的影片，矛盾点围绕着Umkhonto weSizwe：民族之矛，南非秘密武装组织展开，过程有种懒驴拉磨车的感觉，比起讲故事更喜欢灌意向和种族矛盾，后半部分观感比前半部分好
this is adorable as fuck. 短评里嗅到不少 elitism，讽刺的是这恰好是这片想讽刺的。Adrian Greensmith 有 Adam Driver 气质，前途无量。
我竟然觉得是好看的！最大亮点是Emily！太酷了！
自由的代价，黑人主演那种绝望中硬撑中狠厉，太让我印象深刻了。南非，如果有机会想去看看。
青春，热血，大提琴搞重金属还真是喜闻乐见啊
其实还挺有意思的，但是总感觉过了考高中生活的电影年纪…即使摇滚，也只能自嗨了
小成本制作，主打人性的挖掘，恐怖分子都是好人，代表国家机器的都是坏人，及格水平，三星。
可惜就还是比较套路
玩儿重金属的其实都是一些很单纯很善良的家伙，青春痘+重金属真是个好idea啊！干净，喜欢！
上周末看的，看完扒了他们乐队铅笔写的那歌儿的大提琴前奏，开始有模有样练大无，然后准备再扒一下war pig里面的大提琴。我觉得鼓手war pig那段儿打得帅飞了！演员好努力，看得出来有正经学鼓学琴。pep band也超级relatable，虽然从来没有见过那么爆裂的黑管哈哈哈。故事就非常普通，但是是our zone，所以值得大说特说😬👊🏻👊🏻
青春系列结合金属到这个程度还是可以了，三位演员都属于有眼缘的那类，燥起来更表现在生命状态而不是空话，如果人的一生都能如此燃烧就好了。三星半。
事件背景可以挖掘得更深入，但本片没有。没有很好地处理材料
生命诚可贵，爱情价更高。若为自由故，二者皆可抛。
南非的革命战士，知道行动已经失败只能牺牲后，提出释放曼德拉的要求。虽然没有看到释放，但是他们没有伤害人质，是有人性和道德底线的。
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