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)
太好看了。男主越看越帅，他的小情人小奶狗类型，太般配了🥺同性恋没有错。迫害同性恋的跟希特勒有什么区别？
去除掉同性的部分，就是一个情节普通的犯罪电影。愣头青小警察一意孤行深入案件，发现强权政治下的秘密。但正是因为同志情节及其上映的时间，让它有了特殊政治意义。
人不能恐惧一切，尤其是为了自由。骗了所有人，但是至少没有欺骗自己。
老派但应该是今年到现在为止看过的最好的同志片了吧，剧情紧凑且非常有现实意义，两位男主角也很来电，床戏滚得好， 狠狠扇着波兰当局耳光。“半个国家都藏着秘密”，历史和现实惊人相似。
什么啊，视听语言出了大问题，除了摄影还能看（不包括调度）别的一塌糊涂，看了个寂寞，
那天晚上，和你一起在街头飞奔，逃离警察的搜捕，我就知道，我的心已经和你一起逃掉了。
设定和感情线很有意思，审讯室和喝酒那两段氛围营造的很暧昧，但悬疑感很弱，结尾处理的太草率了，是那种很快就会忘掉的电影。（苦笑）不过男主真的越看越好看～3.5🌟
男主留个小胡子太有味儿了。
是不是越冷的地方对于情感就越压抑 但越压抑爆发时也就越热烈 好可惜最后的美好也只是梦幻泡影一场//色调的冷感和胶片的颗粒感 到底还有多少隐秘未能得到妥善归终呢
笼罩在铁幕下的压抑与迫害，然而对自由的追求与对真爱的觉醒，让主人公勇敢地冲破了这一切，诚实地面对与做回自己。男一男二之间火花四射，CP感爆棚。开放式的结局保留了悬念，虽然灰暗的政治背景令人不容乐观，但爱与勇敢又不至于叫人全然绝望。 “做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
迷惘和道德的模糊邊界上，怦然心動始於悄然之間
关于《老亨利》:时间短，节奏慢，没有黑人，没有女性，一部古典纯粹的西部电影。游侠变为农民，历史藏进衣柜;警长转行悍匪，罪孽烙下疤痕。可惜历史无法掩盖，罪孽难以洗白。低头本可相安无事，救人反惹血光之灾。短刀割腕，利斧破胸，拔枪射穿面颊，抬手击落飞刀。世界变了，但你大爷永远还是你大爷。
两个互相欺骗的人，却付出真心，有点可怜，审讯那段虐了。其实爸爸也无能为力，对上司对制度无力抗争，对儿子所谓的保护也成了伤害。
故事还可以再复杂一点 增强一下一步步推理的线索节奏感 会更好
太難了，me against the world, 太難了
你欺骗了所有的人，可你没有欺骗你自己，致自由
②楚楚可怜的可爱小卷毛主动勾引！！！男主被一个吻就掰弯后，还不相信哈哈哈，跟女主的亲吻像是证明，下位时很冷漠笑死了，立马让我想起来一个动图，俩男床戏挺好看的dddd！
那是时期的波兰固然黑暗，可当下的波兰也并不好啊！剧情的确是老套了点，但男一男二的故事线不错，二人床戏性张力十足。
叙事结构可以再紧凑一些，配乐很赞，最后10分钟发现局长秘密要去解救情人时，背景音乐突然转为快板女声伴唱急促实为神来一笔，以及恭喜网飞借此片介入波兰政治。
本来以为是部波兰版的虎口巡航，没想到好太多，剧本扎实，叙事清晰。把一个人特定时代特定身份的复杂性抽丝剥茧的展开，不论是社会，事业，家庭，都是令人窒息的。这样的特质危险又迷人。希望有一天，在黑暗里你们不用躲避追杀，夜空下的码头是两个相爱的人追逐繁星的地方。
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