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)
本质是一个艺术家的爱情故事。最常见的元素都有：精神分裂、天才/天赋、一见钟情等等。在中国的流行大概和现在爱猫人士满大街有关吧…原来一直到19世纪，英国社会还没有将猫普遍地作为宠物呀
爱情线比较虚，姐弟线姐姐早已死去是全局最大反转，父子线隐藏了妈妈和姐姐去世的秘密和父亲无法直视的过去。
画面的绚丽和光影的唯美，都远大于故事本身。不是那么精彩的人物传记，但猫猫可爱，倒也足矣。🥰
小清新、搞笑、惊悚、感动、热血，爱情、姐弟情、父子情、乡情，会觉得这种剧情就是硬凑，把太多吸引观众的点拼凑在一起，如果整体来看，就是支离破碎，但是如果单看每一个点，又都展现的还不错，甚至产生了情绪。韩国人拍社会现实很厉害，拍人际感情的戏也是特别在行，甚至有明显时代戏的感觉，如果是经历过那个时代的人，应该会有更多的情怀感受。
整体来看前后剧情有点割裂 各讲各的最后又强行拉回来 难道朴正民只能拿到这样的本子当主演么？哭 什么时候能熬出头啊
拍得有点空，后半段更是直接放飞了，所以剧本真的很重要，再好的人物故事和演员演技也经不起这么霍霍。
林允儿绝对是理想型，父亲说出真相那段还不错。
爱猫人士和本尼粉丝一整个大无语，选择编年体和旁白是导演的平庸和偷懒，人物的所有重要环节全部语焉不详，包括童年阴影和日后疾病的源起、灵感的触发、绘画风格的转变，更别说标题里的那个“电光”了，依赖出色演员去演绎孤独天才，又制造出混乱的意识流，最好看的是片尾曲的画
亲情是最大的主题，着实很感动，其次是爱情呀，喔磕了，允儿
作为传记片，拍得一般。有些镜头和画几乎无法区分。猫能成为和狗一样的宠物，Wein的功劳不小。
本尼是天才型的演员。电影的服化布景精致用心，但最打动我的是最后那些画。
怪异天才画家的悲惨人生。主演们演技没得说，Foy可爱得要命。可电影问题还是不少。构图和仿油画式的摄影滤镜确实塑造了美感，但幻灯片般的逐帧推进手段实在很水，更别提后段有个莫名其妙的长达三五分钟的万花筒式闪回。以及汀妹绝美颜值演这种划水角色做啥呢，扶额。
好吧,
感情细腻，画面温柔，演技在线。在镜头里的父亲不善言辞却内心强大，儿子天才却也困在了生活这道难题中。很感人，是一部好电影。
前半段很BBC流水账，后半段的气质完全变了，叙事的节奏舒缓下来，开始进行精神世界的展现，猫的指代也才显现出来。
前半段很BBC流水账，后半段的气质完全变了，叙事的节奏舒缓下来，开始进行精神世界的展现，猫的指代也才显现出来。
亲情是最大的主题，着实很感动，其次是爱情呀，喔磕了，允儿
弟弟因为姐姐躲火车去世，心愿就是有个火车站在村子边，宁愿放弃学业、感情，想得到父亲的一句赞扬。姐弟感情，父子解开芥蒂，甚至还有可爱的爱情。
男主看着小女孩在妈妈坠落的地方蹲着时因为小还没意识到死亡是什么的时候男主抱头痛哭，因为这一切他都经历过。
—You are a prism,through which that beam of life reflecs.
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