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)
总之，这部还挺现实的，，同性恋并不是单纯的幻想中的bl和百合这样，，
只要我们有一个人被拷着，就没人拥有自由。
自由的代价，是一切。 RIP Silverton Trio
在“白人至上主义盛行”的国度，黑人肯定是最低贱的，可就算你是身居高位的白人，如果出言不逊，想做埋汰主义的事，那也得死。
自由的代价是什么？一切，包括生命。
fuju真是越来越好看，剧情一般，但是随便截图都很美，导演挺会拍的…
80年代争取独立是正义的，这是与kb分子的区别
呵呵，看看南非现在的样子，你们自由了，如愿了，可天堂实现了吗？
電影其實很簡單，情緒也給予的很到位。但是缺少了這種困境式動作的緊張感，而且角色的成長其實都很突如其來，我不知道這部電影用了多少成本，但其有限的呈現方式，確實看得出電影再處理事件方式上很省略。
有点类似《悬崖之上》啊，一上来就是叛徒出卖，然后逃跑。。。只不过，套了一个种族隔离的皮而已①说教味道太浓了②另外，搞不懂，为啥枪手会射杀司法部长的女儿。。如果那样，还不如直接把白女身后的黑人直接射杀呢！！③直升机飞行员是女队员检查的，她居然没发现飞行员身上的手枪和窃听器，那她检查个锤子④还有警长进入银行，身上带着枪，脚上也带着枪，不检查的吗？⑤再就是人质个个都精神抖擞的。。一点都不怕他们啊。。。⑥除了特警小分队和大校有那么一点种族歧视的味道。其他的人不管是警察，还是人质，都很有人情味到，都很同情黑人啊？如果这样的话，黑人还反抗个屁啊！尤其是司法部长的女儿，如果真的想帮助黑人，平时有很多机会帮助的啊，这个时候突然冒死支持黑人，是个什么意思？？这个坑爹女吧？？她爹的司法部长位置肯定保不住了。。。
刻意煽情，这种程度的所谓反抗是不能成事的。
看了一个半小时左右，剧情让我有点看不下去了，但是神尾枫珠真的好帅啊啊啊踩在我的审美点上！！
南非从曼德拉接手后迅速沦为三流国家，政治方面不用多说了。这片3个人在银行劫持人质，跟警方谈判，各种摆烂，完全没有啥新意。一小时40分钟，太长，我是没看完就弃了。
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。
freedom has a price 看哭了
山田杏奈
虽然人心向善，但是自由的代价，真的是很大的，尤其是当有人自以为是霸主的时候。
真实事件改编，借一次所谓的恐怖事件，反映当时南非的种族黑暗……影片的细节刻画也很出色，人性的种种令人唏嘘。
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