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)
*演员的表现都很好，真的很好
结尾处有加分。
長片處女作，細節很棒，也很有千禧年的氛圍，能讓人共情。方郁婷有好幾個很美的鏡頭，比如坐在公車上的側臉和與馬的對視。2021.12.6，光點華山。
即便如此，妈妈还是爱你。好爱好爱。
与其看这些新片不如再重头看一遍杨德昌。
好细腻。小时候的自己会钻进一个角度，只觉得大人不可理喻，不求理解，世界可以小到只剩自己。长成了大人再去看，只觉得孩子叛逆，不通情理。所以困境无关乎年龄，大家都是活在感受里。
每个人都好累呀，演员都不错，就是剧作上略单一。
自私的小孩与无助的大人 ( Ĭ ^ Ĭ ) 。电影拍得细腻又真实，而且催泪。。。
2.家长里短困扰着片中人，也困扰着现实中的人们，从本片中体会到的感觉从生活中也能体会到，所以并不太能产生观众愿意看下去的感觉
人是慢慢学着长大的。
是的，一开始就是很“俗气”的因为是陈老师唱了片尾曲，才知道了这部电影。一直等啊等，希望北美能上映，最后还是在线上看到。说不出好在哪里，但感动尽在不言中。
一个不算新鲜的主题，不管是非典，乳腺癌，“美国女孩”还是家庭，其实都是关于家庭关系错位的成长故事，明线是女孩的青春期，暗线则回归家庭
父母没有觉察到这一点，更没有把孩子当成和自己一样的人，想要用权威控制TA们，使用所有沟通方法中，最没有效，最伤人的方法，用情绪对抗情绪。
如果我是这位妈妈，我不知道自己还能不能活得下去。年轻和美国梦破碎，健康与容颜凋零，爱情与婚姻岌岌，母女亲情相爱相杀，每一种关系都令人窒息，都是不能承受的重。
我们东亚的亲密关系似乎永远也跳脱不出以爱为名的责任、伤害与磨砺。
文化冲突、世代冲突都显得很浮于表面 上一个疫情时代刚好呼应了当下的氛围 算是唯一的亮点 一切都好平淡好平淡 这么来看瀑布真的好优秀 还的是钟孟宏
女儿还无法学会体谅父母的哀愁痛苦与崩溃。父亲和母亲两人各自的一段哭泣，被生活的重担压垮。
不过也可以理解大多数人无法代入这个电影，毕竟这种复杂的经历很少人会有。就一个影视作品而已，这部片也是少见的压抑，基本就是全程下坡，到最后才稍微上抬一下。
舒适
上中学最叛逆的那段时间，恨过讨厌过我妈。今年30了，我很感谢我妈，很爱她，终于懂世上只有妈妈好。也许有时候会被当作妈宝，那是因为她太强了，我崇拜她，我觉得她说的很多事都是对的。希望妈妈会活很久很久，一直一直健康平安，一直一直很幸福。有一句话我想这辈子都不可能当面说出口，I LOVE YOU，Mom。
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