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)
本以为是一招 公子献头
难以置信竟然有政治家觉得要光明正大赢得选举
愤怒的公牛只看到红旗，甚至不考虑谁在挥舞它。
四平八稳的推进，渐入佳境。人物的色彩单调了点。
历史取材博弈模式，演技也算精彩，镜头的几个光影和语言表现比较有感。
画面感很强，故事性缺少一些冲突，明明很刺激 给人的感觉倒不是很强烈
还是感觉太理想化 两大影帝加持确实让剧情丰满不少 以及李善均的嗓音也太有特点了
最后停在“而徐昌大并不在那里” 啧 意韵有了啊 / 首尾用鸡蛋的故事来体现人 妙啊 / 还有金云范这么理想化的政客 才是这个片子最童话的部分啊
理想主义打败不了现实主义。为了目的不择手段，还是为了坚持的信念宁愿失败？毫无疑问我一定是目标导向
相信看过导演不汗党的，看这部多少会和我一样失望，镜头语言退步实在严重。也别提南山的部长，韩国政治惊悚类型片多了去，不用强行并列。这部前半段选举的梗其实更像拉拉因的《智利说不》。整部片亮点都落在薛演技（但看过薛前作就知道对他其实没什么挑战）和肖的人设（可惜选角，如果让郑雨盛或者更极端些崔岷植吴达洙来演会更好）。不功不过，平庸之作。导演后生可畏，值得期待。
见惯了打打杀杀的韩国政治片，这也太温柔了，理想主义的惺惺相惜，恐怕是韩国政坛不会出现的吧。。。最后影子还是只能淹没于黑暗中，毫无悬念。双男主演技在线，我就喜欢看韩国型男大背头加套西，面无表情就很有那味道了
字幕有点崩，断断续续看了几次才继续下去，进入到党内竞争那段开始渐入佳境，竞选的阴暗诡计一波接一波。开头和结尾关于偷鸡蛋的隐喻，一下子就把候选人和影子的性格特征诠释的清清楚楚，很有意思。
你想改变世界，一个无辜的人不会被当作主义者迫害的世界，在那里你可以无所畏惧地说话，国家不强迫人民做出牺牲，创造这样一个世界是我的最大的目标。
中规中矩……谈政治和权谋，韩国还是太嫩了……
《南山的部长们》后最值得一看的韩国政治电影，很难简单地展开说，信息量大，需要大概的人物对应和历史脉络，但对韩国人来说再熟悉不过了。钦佩于他们的胆大，也尊重这种在类型片中试图讨论复杂理念的勇气，尽管有不少的套路和缺陷，但这种影片总会让人再次正视电影与社会存在关系的意义之一，给薛景求加一星。
对付流氓怎么能用君子的手段呢？但我们又那么向往君子的作派
我们得到正义，可以实行各种政策
一个没有完整主权的国家，还搞什么过家家的选举？
胜者即是正义？为了胜利不择手段，还是为了某些更高的价值而选择坚守原则？残酷的斗争也许容不下理想者，但改变这个世界则实实在在地需要他们。阴影为什么永远是阴影，是因为他缺少灵魂。
依然是躲不过cliche的无聊政治小品
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