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)
网聊能美好到把人掰弯？或许吧。其实人物及情感的立体化塑造都做得很不错了，至少在这一题材命题作文范畴里，能算高分了吧，但仅对于我这种保守直来说，没有了《哭泣游戏》这样的时代政治背景，纯异装同是很难接受和消化的。
没有才华，不懂节制。浪费主演。浪费编剧。浪费摄影。本来可以是个好电影。
动物们好可爱，人类太坏，科学家邪恶马戏团没人性。
对于很多植物和动物来说，大部分人都是它们的灾难。好好的风景要去践踏，野外活得好好的要去干扰。不过若有别的物种比人更强大，那人也将被玩弄，弱肉强食的世界。
7 “我俩生活在火药桶里，却擦出了火花”。每个人心中都有一座断背山。
沒有刻意逢迎的好心分手結局；暫借過體溫，繼續上路
片尾曲听着听着就要哭了，在众多同影中真的属于独树一帜了🤧 低于预期而又高于预期。
说不出那里不好，但也没有说的那么惊艳。把演艺圈灰暗的一面和开放式夫妻的病态和无奈从演艺圈的电影人表达出，我觉得挺反讽。
各自在各自的生活中挣扎。就问男主知道男二是男的抛下男二，男二独自走回家那段小提琴曲子叫啥，好听。
三星半。前半段厚重感足，发现男二性别后，人物twist太生硬，自我觉醒的戏太干，男主整个角色垮台。总结：起似大师，落于俗套。
冷门佳作，两位主角虽然在外貌上并不出众，但演技精湛，尤其眼神中流露出的钟意之情，令人心动。临近片尾处的一个长镜头更是拍得美不胜收，必须收录入私人最佳长镜头前十名。这电影蕴含着严肃文学的思考，同时演绎了自然风景之下光与影的美学——爱的蓓蕾，还未盛开，就化作了夏日的泪。晚风沉醉，任往事随风，我心永不寐。
并非或者没有多少Karim Aïnouz-ish，看完不奇怪会被选中代表巴西竞逐最佳外语片（已炮灰），其实我想看反对bolsonaro的人如何评论这部优先在欧洲市场发行有着重“写实主义”的lgbtq+电影以及另一部先在国内亮相的jesus kid（之前看到巴西人的反应就已种草）
男二就是拟人化大金毛吧！遇到问题千里奔袭求摸摸，虽然被骗了很生气，但最后还是主动来求贴贴。剧情节奏推进缓慢，冲突点也相对单一，不过认识自己这种话题真是永不落伍，谁不需要认识自己呢？
片尾曲听着听着就要哭了，在众多同影中真的属于独树一帜了🤧 低于预期而又高于预期。
——2022-04-10/星影[观影者1273]
很私人的叙事。最后蛮温暖的。真正的爱需要触及对方的内心，性别、外在的一切都只是躯壳。
找到自我与现实威逼的故事，性别与这个世界的对抗。
这个小故事不需要俩小时来讲吧？看得不明不白的。
从预告片开始就一直很期待能够有新颖剧情，只是后来没有字幕不得不看全英。安东尼奥很帅，影片整体的画面很唯美，但和自己所期望的有些差距，有些失望。
这男主真是垃圾，抛下一大堆问题跑路，想着和网恋对象见面直接跑过去贴寻人启事，就这样毁掉别人的生活。画面也缺乏美感，没看出有哪些亮点，这种片就不值得两个小时。
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