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)
就让我笨拙地喜欢你，从须臾到不朽，从一叶到知秋，然后，骑一匹白马，到人海里安家。
上上班喝喝酒打打浑 傍晚时分追逐霓虹 黎明时分逃离旭日 是过往的青春 也是现在
前半段感觉还是挺有意思挺不错的片子，后半段直接一个闷棍打过来原来是讲婚外恋，有的时候真的搞不懂岛国编剧，可能婚外情的爱情故事才是岛国现实的写照吧，剧情反转的有点猝不及防
无非是作了一辈子，年纪大了开始觉得孤单，但这不是应得的吗？
老婆还怀孕了
好平淡啊，熬到中间看到高潮来了，以为有大招，居然就这么结束了。。。
感情生活一团糟的基佬，情感及精神的依托上甚至没有他女儿独立。
“你在里约迷失了吗？”
品味真好，我也喜欢キリンジ的エイリアンズ～前面简直逆光的美好～
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每次遇到自我的矛盾，克制情绪，爆发，都会选择逃避，却也渴望亲密的关系。
what's up with the manic pixie dream girl trope
中年男同志的情感危机。男友分手、女儿成长、母亲老去，不幸的童年让他永远处理不好情感的问题，试图彬彬有礼、试图强带笑容，但总有一刻掩盖不了而爆发。他试图挽回前男友，但不是因为爱，而是因为恐惧没有爱；他对好友突然的表白、他对一面之缘的智利青年产生“强烈的感觉”、他对沙滩偶遇的陌生情侣欢度一夜，大抵都是由于对“没有爱”“不能爱”的恐惧。这个让人心疼的男人总是试图逃避，直到电影结束，他也没有真正解决自己的问题。但这也就是生活，前男友成了别人的男友，女儿要成长离开，母亲会去世，终究，是要孤独地接纳一切。
如果编剧与导演别贪心，就只讲一家三口的关系，以及延伸向外的爱恨情仇，重点突出直击心灵；再将基调把握更准确，不恶搞不煽情，不混肴影片成色，那么我一定更加共情！
磨寶推薦的電影，很能理解磨喜歡這部電影，但劇情過於男主視角，後半段不再是「若者たち」而是「若者」了
20220726 Film at Lincoln Center, NYC NYAFF22 比想象中要感性，买票的时候没想到这是一个同性故事，导演和男主在现场Q&A的时候也提到了王家卫（事实上有一个scene就是致敬春光乍泄，巧的是NYAFF上周也放了春光乍泄）剧本很有意思，关系很复杂，好几个爱而不得而被伤害的故事。喜剧部分也是好笑的。
46/100。直到最后半个小时才逐渐理解了男主人公玩世不恭的外表下脆弱不堪的内里，当那些生活中所有最接近的美好突然消逝的瞬间，那颗看起来流浪的心终会体验到不可扭转的疼痛，才能更好学着过完未来的人生。然而影片的前四分之三虽然回想起来确实能够体现出男主人公的生活态度，但具体呈现上真的让人难以忍受，晃动不安的镜头、吵闹喧哗的配乐、具有挑衅意味的某些情节实在让人吃不下去。不过男主角演技确实了得，尤其是那场和女儿的餐桌撕逼戏，两人句句高能，让人大呼过瘾。 @2021-10-20 23:27:26 @2021-12-23 01:34:43
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讲述男主与男友分开后发现自我，救赎自我的故事~（chi度还挺大）-立青映画字幕组翻译
归根结底，就是孤独感。在任何关系中，都有种置身事外的抽离，太孤独了
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