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)
#2021 BIFF 第一场 with nw
镜头不错，什么玩意，睡着了，风景挺美，不行，太无聊了，提前退场
BJIFF 第八场。寰映合生汇一生黑，为了商业活动换了我好不容易抢来的杜比厅场，换的厅还生生少了两排让一大帮人没找到座，真的无语。。。
“探寻”的概念，生命流逝和洞穴探险两条线索，医生和探险者，照护和征服。很多很多空镜，险些睡着。洞穴确实太干净了点，看着就像搭的布景。
洞穴流水和老人的鼻息被影像缝织成触感如雾般的诗篇，洞穴的深邃静谧与洞穴外的广袤在沉静的镜头中融为一体。探洞的过程仿若人生历程的缩影，充满着未知的魅力，最终洞穴和生命同时抵达终点。
大概相当于音乐里的水疗音乐或者冥想音乐，很舒缓平静，用一些高科技拍出了很朴素但诗意的故事。看到山窝里的村庄的人们晚上聚在酒吧门口看电视，觉得好温馨好有安全感，被感动到了。看困了是真的，但是还是觉得好。（好像我的世界，里面有村民，有牛有羊有山，然后一群史蒂夫下去探洞，就是没有小白在里面！）
@BJIFF2021 不在影院看很难看不进去，太享受了，却也容易犯困
重复“望着你”“set go"频次过多有煽情过度的尴尬。不过，写励志与亲情的同时呈现运动员尤其是残障运动员的生计困境，这一点很难得。08年他拿到退役前最后一块金牌，风光无限，可接下来的生活怎么样呢？他和电影以外的他们，现在过得还好吗？
PS：不是很懂那段在洞口旁踢足球，从洞口之下仰望足球从一边飞去另一边，最终不小心落入洞中的镜头
生命不息 探索不止！ 不只局限于人类与大自然、主创团队对自然光影与声音的捕捉和运用 也同样在探索着电影无限可能性。感动！
不服命，不等于不认清自己局限性，愚蠢的逞强，结果要么伤害自己，要么连累他人。
以探索洞穴的近乎纪录片形式交织牧羊老人去世的生命流逝过程，极致的慢电影 少量的隐喻
地上空镜太美了，没几句台词纯靠视觉语言叙述，老人随着勘探队员的到来和一步步探索身体逐渐恶化，最终一同走到了尽头。最后随着雾气降临，我的北影节也结束了。
屏幕太大，眼睛看不过来了，多亏导演每个画面都要定住十秒以上
洞穴的探索与老人日常生活的平行剪辑像是对一段往事的探索。
分分钟用足力，煽情配乐不停，来提醒这是一部感人励志电影。像一部加长的公益广告
容易被忽视的佳作，既感人也太好哭了。最难忘扮演苏桦伟的三位不同年龄段的“神奇小子”，他们每个人都奉献了牛叉闪闪的炸裂演技，而这又不仅仅是演技那么简单，只因苏桦伟独一无二的人生极具魅力与传奇色彩。想起另一部《岁月神偷》，电影表面上是讲儿子的成长，实际上幕后灵魂人物一直是苏妈吴君如（影后级别的表演），要不是她几十年如一日的默默承担付出与鞭策，打破世界纪录与世界冠军的传奇也根本无从谈起。而往更远处看，苏妈与她的神奇小子一路跑来的成长经历，这明明就是一个大写的“香港精神”——不服输，不妥协，永远相信自己，逆境中乐观坚强，挺起胸膛与命运赛跑，Get Set, Go!
#20210928 BJIFF 古往今来，篝火旁唱歌谣的场景就是坠动人的。（影迷朋友们说坐后排等于少看一半呜呜呜
语言隐退与广景皆是上帝视角，人的对话在山野与牛羊哞叫无异。明暗切换和用光都很讲究，喜欢在静中安置一些动点引导视线，或许也算一种视觉特色。感觉可能有不少宗教隐喻，也有很多观点，但事实证明有些时候沉默是属于上帝的语言，未必适合人类，作为实验倒是可以理解的。
BJIFF#4.5。更喜欢在洞中的段落，难得有这种放松身心与屏气凝神共存的心态，自然的馈赠和人类的超越壮举在这个神圣的时刻相遇。而洞外的白云苍狗又与洞何干。
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