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)
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同性恋什么时候才能停止drama和自怨自艾啊？
《关于都2022年了我还是每看一部通讯录浪漫剧都想要重温LOOKING这件事》
国家利益？还是儿女情长？还是一个男人不愿回忆的过去？
挺好的呀，喜剧，有一丝老套的浪漫，演技可能有一点点缺陷，但是总体真的不错
如果我的男人是“弑君者”，我不介意和他在那片寒冷不毛之地呆上几个世纪。
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但是，好多剧情还是很尴尬
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欧美同影看太多了，这种反而提不起兴致了。。。
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国家利益？还是儿女情长？还是一个男人不愿回忆的过去？
怎么2022了还是这用套路啊，gay喜剧能不能有点新意。
虽然剪辑和剧透很一般。但是带入howie就是我本人真实写照了 现实的部分就是真实的 但是电影浪漫美好的几乎也不可能真正实现吧 愿姐妹们都能幸福 我也可以
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