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)
关于离别、生死和爱，1h09m画幅的渐变是分界线，也预示着郭小鲁和苏凌芳关系的转变，窄画幅是《阿甘正传》中Forrest和Jenny，宽画幅是《本杰明·巴顿奇事》中的Benjamin和Daisy。
挺好人的，讨论了很多人生的问题，适合思考，不适合娱乐。
电影如果只有一个半小时会更好，男主虽然没老，但也没学会享受生活，可惜了。
3.5
暴露了社会派推理的短板，推理部分过于幼稚，导演在社会问题层面又拍得格局很小。两边都不成功。
人老了以后，会变得不那么果断、冷冽，年轻时候的不可一世、睥睨万物都收敛了。王朔也不能例外。这一点倒是挺贴片名的。
3.5，看之前完全没了解故事内容冲着演员来的，以为是本格推理，没想到是社会题材，比较巧的是现在手上翻看的书是《女性贫困》，地震那条线的故事有些许冲淡主题。
看名字我以为是返老还童，结果先看了十分钟旁边配画面儿童剧，然后就是复古风甜蜜蜜但比甜蜜蜜差十万八千里，两个人物毫无灵魂，尤其王传君，结尾去搞干细胞都快给我整笑了，这是完全不值得拍出来的一部戏，只有烂尾缝针那段有点小趣味，但，竟然能做到和主题毫无关系
P.S. 对王珞丹的记忆还停留在《后会无期》，这次依旧精彩。
看了别人的评论才知道原来这是小说改编，ma，ano，有时候我还是不咋理解日本的思维，老人总想不给国家添麻烦，但实际上本来就造成了麻烦，而且社会福祉本来就应该是通过税收来调节财富来帮助需要被帮助的人。。。
没有推理逻辑也很缺失，但是现实和当下往往更加魔幻（04102022）
这种题材的犯罪片，如果让韩国人来拍，估计能上8分。
关于普通公民如何被“正常”饿死的故事。这个当口看感触会格外深刻。关键它不光写了表象，还探索了造成这种情况的东方社会和人性的内层。触碰到了最关键的地方。
真爱不是刻意，是永烙心底的，无可取代。人和人之间是有磁场的，磁场合，一切顺遂，相爱永久。
In the Wake 2021 Blu-ray 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-DIY@TTG，2:14:47.996 (h:m:s.ms)，43.05 GB
富有诗意的片名，乍一看，怎么取个这名呀？看完了还就这名好用。这在苦难悲惨的世界里有你们相伴才是冬日里的一抹暖阳啊！
与其说俗套的“爱情故事”不如说是作无知人生。没点生物学基础硬要写“干细胞”，科幻搞成了玄幻，不如直接换成玻尿酸。用时代的生命长河里，探讨生死。用散文试的讲故事，装文艺。总结一下“我看不懂，但我也不大受震撼”
是多么匮乏的镜头语言，才需要这样多的旁白来叙事
内容浮于表面，虽沉重却不深刻，但这片子值得疫情失控地区领导班子反复观摩学习并作深刻检讨。
311伤痛文学 可你们有些问题就算没地震也会存在不是么
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