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)
another me in this world…
谁不爱既在阳光下奔跑也会独自在夜晚流泪，自由开朗热爱生活的女孩呢？
结尾太动人了。“如果你的生命中有一种激情，或许你就不会再生病。”
、油嘴滑舌
随着年纪渐长，已经不想像《世界上最糟糕的人》那样，最后看似独立自主，过上了一种值得进度条已经接近尾声的生活。更喜欢《阿娜伊斯爱情》，法国人的那种莽撞、轻盈和自在简直是天生优势，我也想对身边的很多事物说一句，“我不同意”，我，不同意。奔跑、迟到、敢爱、敢不爱，那种电影结束但还没有结束的结尾，才是想要的样子啊。
今年和小朋友远程看的第1部电影。
真的太美了！这部电影简单热烈得就像她的剧情一样！我太喜欢了！南法的热烈直接和缱绻知性，这两个女主简直是南法最美的两面啊啊啊啊倒计时25天！南法等等我！
勇敢大胆，明确自己想要的是什么。羡慕这样的热情四溢，和稳重理性的作家那么互补😭到底怎样才算活得洋溢又潇洒呢，不知道，努力探索吧
这是一部真正的后现代女性主义电影！My body, my choice！最后的场景两位女主演的也太好了，耗尽勇气说完成年人该说的一切，56岁已经没什么能吓到她了，她也不舍她也悲伤小心但她知道该做什么，而年轻人的不甘心和难过都在脸上，“我不同意”即是我要行动。（最后一幕尽管好心但显得有点多余）两位女主演都太美了！剧中所有男人都觉得自己可以搞3P也是太真实了，男人，就是这么自信。 😄
“我们之后不会再见面了吗？”
阿娜伊斯追求自己的爱情时勇敢，大胆，热情，像花朵一样明亮，鲜艳。她说话语速很快，会自嘲，也能决绝地离开，坚定地放下，她选择自己的生活。姬片终于不再是冰冷的色调，或者是北风呼啸的冬天，而是南法湛蓝的天空，明媚的太阳，轻快的奔跑。太美了。
同性线有点着急啊，想要暧昧场景多一点，明晃晃的性爱场景少一点。倒是结尾valerie说自己不能接受婚外情，是个一语双关的妙点。
或许换成女收藏家的女主演阿娜伊斯
“你吸引了我，你征服了我。你可以得到所有想要的东西，你可以移山填海。” 仅你可见。2021.12.29
感觉好久没看到好看的les电影了，开心~
还挺喜欢的 这样的羞赧和大胆谁又有推开的力量呢
这是只有在法国才能拍得这么浪漫随意的电影吧，女作家这该死的魅力
女主其实一直在跑、跑、跑，她真的好有活力、好夏天，整个三观也太法国了，我非常非常喜欢
another me in this world…
沙滩那段亲密戏很美，海浪声和喘息声交融，亲吻对方耳后的沙砾...
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