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)
叙事方式独特巧妙，剧情很顺畅，层层递进，中间穿插的无厘头也很日式，基调相对轻松但是主题却略带悲观。男主小林真觉得这个世界上没有人在乎他的感受于是便觉得活着没有意义，实际上并不是没有人爱他，只是他忽略了所有人对他的爱。死神让小林真以第三者的视角重新认识了他周围的人也重新审视了自己，也让他更明白活着的意义。
本以为会想《酒精计划》一样后半程high起来，结果还是
刚开始的时候可能会有些迷，但是看到最后还有一种豁然开朗的韵味，拍出了日系典型的暖心感觉，不错！
剧情一般般，而且两代人的隔阂就开的很突兀，但是兰普林太有魅力了，一颦一笑皆是戏
2022-71，纯爱剧，随便看看还可以的。
就完全没拍出那个劲儿和味道。兰普林恐成全片唯一亮点。演孙子的演员表现力太差了。
前段時間看綜藝的時候遇到了kenty作為嘉賓 看到了讓我身對他印象不同的一面 在這部電影中他飾演的笨笨的直直的角色 與他本人性格完全相反 卻沒有感覺突兀 他哭戲的爆發感也讓我震驚。
当你老了，你想要过什么样的人生？前天跟一群老太太汗蒸的时候，我和同事聊天，以后退休了是不是也是过着这样的生活？我说应该不是，我们都懒得出门，以后老了，大概是3息投影来帮我们见面逛街等等。
其实奶奶很酷啊 和酒鬼也没有太大关系 我好像变成这样的大人
韩剧有三宝，癌症，车祸，死的早。
终极目标了
八木好好看(♥∀♥)，
多一星给画面和调度 节奏略微慢了点 看的时候总是忍不住关注男主那么长的睫毛...
有些狗血和普通，只是稍微呈现一段爱情的程式，这种电影就好像定制的，有些人会很有感触，有些人完全不会
让我想起我的外婆 她活着的时候可能是我妈妈在这个世界上最后一个真正在乎的人了
故事题材还是很有创意的，不过观看的时候，我脑海中总是在浮现高中政治课本的那句话：内部矛盾是事物运动变化的根据，也是事物运动的根本性、本质性原因和动力。
陪我看日出，新西兰绝美，举重若轻，选歌好听，既然不能选择怎么生，便要选择怎么死，这是生而为人最后的尊严，我也想死在新西兰，兰普林老来俏，人生苦短，绝不稀释，most people like sunsets, I love the sunrise,
比预想中要好，原以为是部日式的，甜腻腻的爱情片。后来才发现是部虐恋，而且时间还是如此之长，当中的日式元素多到刻意，有种拍给外国人看的感觉，也难怪奈飞会选他。
挺好看的，有几个画面第一次get到日系风格男子的美
智慧毒舌老奶奶再生命最後一段拯救了有自殺傾向的孫子，有點治癒有點致鬱。劇情其實挺簡單老土的，但是整個氛圍虐虐的又帶點溫馨。英國人在新西蘭，帶了點陽光的味道。PS：老奶奶真的好美，once and forever。
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