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)
“同志们，永别了，我想念你们。” 老上海的故事。
4K彩色修复版真挺震撼，完全可以说是一部新电影。
现代谍战片的师祖，无数桥段被反复致敬模仿，但从未被超越。
祖国的方向 新中国万岁✧*。٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧*。
比一般革命题材的人物塑造细腻，隐秘战线发报员的物质场景再现有历史意义，节奏尚可，人物关系可看出之后的【潜伏】对其的参照和发挥。
彩色4K复原版，我真的眼睛都要瞎了。剧情蛮紧凑的。大家都说男主帅，但是我一直在注意男主的发际线😥只觉得男主长得很伟光正。
修复工作做的挺好，衣料质感都看得很清楚，以前的电影确实单纯，好人坏人都写在脸上🤔
那个年代的谍战电影，气氛虽然不紧张，但是还是蛮写实的。
经典的革命题材老电影。孙道临先生虽然出生成长在北平，但是完美的刻画了一位老派上海知识分子和坚毅的地下党。最后被敌人逮捕前依旧战斗在电台前，并从容不迫的与战友诀别的片段堪称经典。李侠的原型是烈士李白。
话说我现在有点不喜欢这种片子了~不过还是不错啊
童年看到的第一部红色革命电影，向老一辈革命者致敬。
喜欢舞剧版，趁着修复版上映特地来看。其实时代痕迹挺重的，主角会对着镜头表决心，男主也很少表现身为人夫人父的情感。但撇开这些，故事挺完整了，最后“同志们永别了”还是看哭了，是属于那个时代的好电影。彩色修复有种明星照骗的感觉，只主角花功夫，背景里的群演上色有点粗糙...
中国电影资料馆修复版本+影史导映
修复得很清晰，当时很用心拍的一部主旋律电影。
——向尊重历史的上色师、修复师傅们，致敬！
孙道临的气质发挥得淋漓尽致，王心刚的客串也让人惊艳啊。
我是看了刘涛和胡歌演的片段才知道这部电影的，有些许闪光点，不过人物塑造脸谱化，整体太“样板戏”了，同时也是毫无意义的上色修复。
电影没有高超多彩的镜头语言，绝大部分转场也基本都靠叠化和黑幕，但恰恰是朴素真实的笔触，才能描摹出那个时代最坚定的信仰、最深沉的爱，正如敌人的形容“这般点划清楚，犹如一汪清水。”
最后说一句，我党能粉碎国民党投降，姚苇居功至伟hh
打五星不是说作为电影多么优秀，而且说所有人都该看看记住那些英雄那些事迹。
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