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)
i wish it was that easy.
很难想象连我们邻国印度，都能以宝莱坞式的幽默，拍出一部包含LES、TXL、形婚、以领养代替生殖癌的同影。🌈
氛围感很不错，是恐怖的，确实邪性，也确实有点晦气。不过我唯一的不满还是源自我对伪纪录片的不喜，晃镜头这事我是真的受不了，看着晕。。另外养父也太可怜了叭。。然后就是，我以前以为自己没有很密恐，看了以后觉得我还是挺密恐的。。。。
论亚洲的言论自由，印度、韩国、日本已经是工业水平了
美好得让人相信
前面嘻嘻哈哈还挺喜庆，后面两人出柜挺感人的
拉吉库玛可能是我最爱的印度男演员了，不算最帅，但特别有男人味。最重要的是，他参与主演的几乎所有电影都具有深厚的人文气息，对印度社会的旧疾沉疴或民生疾苦有较为深刻的剖析或真诚的探讨。
跟《喜宴》类似的结局，爱情、亲情和社会规则的互相妥协
好看，小王子和布米主演的基/姬片，笑点很多，也很感人
某种意义的合家欢喜剧，如果可以引进就好了（就想想
其实就冲着一个男权思想严重，到处充斥着直男癌、直女癌、生育癌的国家能拍出这样的题材都值五星了。印度电影果然不负众望，每年都能拿的出来这样上乘的佳作，对比国产电影，。。真是羞愧。。。不过这部的缺点也挺明显，叙事方面略有欠缺，有点拖沓，而且人物心理活动的转折刻画也有点流于表面，尽管如此也无法掩盖印度能拍出这样电影是真的牛逼了！
一个gay一个les从『深柜，被催婚』到『形婚，各自找对象』再到『被迫出柜』最后『获得家人认同，领养小孩』这过程的呈现还是挺真实的，一个谎言需要无数谎言去圆，『不断说谎』这件事就太艰辛，太让人心累；可以想象印度的人口基数那么大，社会氛围那么保守封建，像电影里主角这样『深柜』『形婚』的同志肯定不少，而并不是所有人都能获得祝福。片中大多数歌曲还是动听的，伴随着歌曲，画面的呈现也很美，比如沙尔杜尔在度蜜月的时候与卡比尔在一起，苏曼与女友莉姆吉姆相识，沙尔杜尔与律师男友相识，这些场景弥漫着一种浪漫唯美又暧昧的气息。有两个场景很打动我，一个是沙尔杜尔在同志游行中，戴上面具在摩托车上双手起舞，这是踏出“做自己”的一步了；第二个是结尾的仪式上苏曼的父亲让莉姆吉姆坐到苏曼身边，这一幕是全片最感人、最催泪的。
两个同性恋为了不再被催婚而形婚，后来还是被家人发现，两人都和家人坦白了，最后因为领养孩子还是保持婚姻关系，不过他们的对象都被家人接受了~respect
有趣 真实 真诚 能有这样的电影狠狠羡慕了 p.s.男女主各自的cp都好好嗑啊真不戳
唉，印度，望而却步啊让我
谎言，直面，改变，即使现实很难，诚实勇敢的面对吧。
不是单纯的那种剧情或者立意
好奇同性之间的雷达真的这么强吗
①镜头一般，拍摄手法普普通通，比起《真雄起》差。男主是一个大家庭，但是给的配角镜头和群体镜头都稍微有些多，让人记不太住要表达的人物，我觉得应适当剪掉多人同框画面或镜头多集中重要角色。即使你想呈现多人同框在某些场景的表现，可角色的演绎、神态没有表达到位，也没有细小的动态。②胜在表达的东西多，且说的明白。假结婚、催生、领养、对自身身份的认同、家人的反应等等。③男主的前任是个小年轻，应该是出轨了，表达的是年轻人都爱玩？我看男主现任和女主的另一半好像都是适龄的，没说他俩不好的意思。男主现任花言巧语，很活泼，能带动男主的生活气氛，也能讨婆婆欢心，很不错的。女主现任也般配，适合过日子哈哈哈。
同题材的电影欧美拍过很多甚至探讨也更深入，只不过印度文化语境在某些方面比西方更接近中国传统文化——父权制下女性被迫置于底层，沦为取悦男性和生育的机器。相似的家庭观念，熟悉的亲子关系，君君臣臣父父子子，看不到个体，传宗接代、养儿防老的传统思想，也有印度社会问题的反映，只不过这个结尾过于理想化了。
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