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)
近期唯一能看完的韩影，迷人的不是剧情，是孙锡久和全钟瑞
本身感动催泪励志的真实故事，被拍的稀巴烂。没有重点，台词强行鸡汤。因为提前场观影，看到的幕后花絮中，男女主原型夫妇过度干预作品拍摄，导致出来的成果四不像，还不如一个伟大运动员人物自传的纪录片。
结尾什么鬼，，把人工作搞丢了还能愉快玩耍？
韩国电影也积极地朝着me too2.0的时代向前走了
No.2366 像是看了一篇爱情小说，节奏挺快的，但是挺有意思。不过也难免需要通过一些矛盾，让男女主认识到自己对这份感情的珍视。很喜欢画面展现的内容，特别是街景，想出去旅游了。男主不算帅，但越看越觉得亲切，像是一位值得结实的朋友。
Character translates anywhere
孙锡久太有魅力啦！看台词好的人在一起对戏真是一种享受。
要不是具氏出圈，也不会找这部片子看。没有起承转合的18禁爱情片。
约炮罗曼史。全中瑞是个宝藏演员！孙锡久还是更适合在平面上看😂
剧本给的都啥玩意儿……全姐一冷脸就特怕她忽然邪魅然后嗖地抄家伙……整个走向就很奇怪。
How could this be 孙锡久太上头了
两个人一起吃饭（热聊）的桥段我能看一万次、孙锡久什么神仙“我挺大的吧”哈哈哈哈哈哈
看完好像对橄榄球规则有点一点点的了解。从电影来说，还是单薄了点。
理性上我不喜欢这个结尾，但是孙锡久真的太可爱了，种了15年蓝莓的45岁朴宝剑，有点夸张，我什么时候可以梦到和他谈恋爱！（性是文学！是运动！是政治！
以为他俩能拯救剧本 结果是莫名其妙的错位感反衬得故事更寡了 看完觉得恋爱属实没劲
就是很轻松的谈天说地 女主的金句确实写得很可以
爱死全钟瑞了 片子本来也没抱太大期待 还行吧
看姐电影爱姐一次 偷名册有点太损 结尾蛮符合女主性格的 主人公配角龙套都当当才更是真实的人生吧
看完好像对橄榄球规则有点一点点的了解。从电影来说，还是单薄了点。
全钟瑞总给人一种“疯女人”的感觉，气质很独特！结尾俗套了。
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