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)
让人眼前一亮的00s美高青春片，节奏很紧凑笑点也还行，下饭👍🏻but Hollywood please stop having Asian ppl play the bad guys好吗
26分钟的时候真的哭得很惨……重新回到学校这段真的好可爱！！equlity！
是看起来会超级开心的电影，尤其是舞会两人跳舞，cuz I’m your lady笑翻了
如果只按照我最想看的，欧美校园生活来讲，这部电影也不是我喜欢的，而且情节比较突兀，突兀的原谅，突兀的接受好朋友的喜欢，但是也算是积极向上吧。
有点一般，不知道为什么没有以前那种欧美无脑青春喜剧的热血感觉了，但是怎么说呢！其实每个看似死板、严厉的母亲，说不定都有个热情似火的青春
好久没看到美国青春校园电影了，看完竟然有些子感动。
女主瘦太多啦 这部感觉是她比较好的作品诶
剧情还是不合理，但是想表达的人生含义很清楚了
看着图一乐。不过这电影给成年人看吧多少幼稚了一点，给青少年看呢评级又是R，所以很困惑目标受众到底是谁。（另，最后那段关于来自母亲的夸奖并不是因为她觉得你需要，而是她真的这么相信，有点好哭。）
瘦好多 最后的舞蹈感动到了 Justin好帅 （Steve Aoki本人亲自客串
刚刚看完，其实主题挺旧的，不过这部里面母女的情感还是让我泪奔～故事也完整，看的时候也挺享受的，所以给了4星～想了一晚，实在需要改成3星😂
剧情真的不行，三颗星全部是给歌舞成分的。让人非常怀念8、9年前的美式校园青春电影。
生的这么痛苦，为什么要回来呢？只为了让身边的人不因为你的死而痛哭罢了。
背景音乐好听 都是经典曲目
欢快的青春片，不过女主没有演出17岁少女的状态，靠化妆是不行的
轻松的无脑电影，打发时间的可以看看~文化背景不同，实在不理解执念于毕业舞会这个东西~瘦下来的女主总是让我想到Adele，只是她的嘴有点歪~
Rebel真励志！瘦了一个人的感觉！！轻松愉悦的小电影～🤗
二十年后可以改一下，和剧中相反的思路，会很吸引人
剧情太混乱了，什么都没说清楚，主角莫名其妙的“觉醒”让我才意识到电影已经快结束了。感觉什么都没讲清
好喜欢Rebel哦，其实还是蛮好地结合了巅峰时期校园电影和当代校园的，本来就是个轻松的电影不用太认真吧，不过确实摔成这样不用负责人吗当时的人。。
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