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)
看完情绪激昂的和他讲起60年代美国的民权运动黑人运动反越战性解放讲得唾沫横飞 讲国家权力和freedom of speech的矛盾讲政府机器和媒体的媾合 他耐心的听了半天后说 怎么不见你对自己国家的历史这么有热情有兴趣 我哑口无言。不是我没兴趣也不是我不够热情啊亲爱的
Abbie Hoffman
是否存在一个民权运动电影的现象？《芝加哥七君子审判》是目前看到最成熟的，无论是叙事线把握整合的能力还是煽情的能力（沉默与暴力的对接是最显见的精彩剪辑），奇怪的是，要为这类电影做一个精彩的收尾莫非真是一件难事？太泄气了
导演和编剧大写的厉害，这种高频对白的电影实际上非常不好处理。再加上巨星云集，真是太鸡血了！
……索金这几年，输出比输出形式变得重要了。人物塑造硬得不行，薄如纸。
为了新兰之吻就刷到9分以上……柯南还是顶流。不过柯南近年来特别篇的确是比剧场版好看。
艾伦索金依然犀利，美国司法部向来不是好鸟，正义是争取来的
这个动脑不是指聪明，是指求实。
这是一个历史的书笺，插在60年代的「The whole world is watching」，又体认美国当前的政治局势进行表达。虽然长达两个小时但富于技巧性的拍摄手法和节奏感甚佳的剧本却不会让人疲倦，注意力始终能集中在这个很密的法廷故事之中，而演员各自精彩的表演将电影焊接得更有凝聚感。索金是想把抗议与审判，以及每个人的背景都挤进去，所以有时会让人觉得很仓促。
The struggle was real.
“93小时，但好像一辈子了。”
The whole world is watching
如果喜欢《社交网络》，那么这部片子肯定对你的胃口。
其实这部在柯南系列里面算是超高质量了，案件合理，而且注重感情线，相信不少人看柯南也都是追这条线吧，看到自己想看到的剧情，真是激动，五星高分，这部剧值得拥有。
国家机器总有一种绞杀民间思想的欲望，即使是号称最民主的“米国”。
可以拿最佳剧本奖了，文戏武拍很精彩……七个人因思想受到审判，法官输了，被告也不算赢。
这种熟悉的密集对白节奏和爽感又回来了 是艾伦索金了
这部片的剪辑和配乐绝对是我看过最强的之一。尤其剪辑，让此片的带感程度上升了好几个档次。有关内容，只能说观众以为自己在看电影时打开了上帝视角，其实那只是导演安在你身上的视角。现实生活中更是不存在上帝视角。所谓的“追查哪边先动手”，只是为了寻找个可以拿来定罪的细节而已。惟有反战，才是真正尊重生命的做法。
Tom Hayden
真实事件改编，50年前的美国，有过一场如此荒诞的审判https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qT4y1F7YM
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