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)
三星佳作。
余留巨大的空洞和悲伤 似乎可以理解茨威格最后为什么自杀了
如果有遗憾当然是那个明媚午后，胸前流淌着草莓味儿融化冰淇淋的小维尼了。那是何等美味啊～多汁滑嫩没有世俗过分侵扰的不寄存情绪毒素的肉身～这所谓毕生遗憾！手里的汉堡索然无味……肉是有等级的！而我吃的一直不好。
PPPS:他们看的那个节目叫啥？
吃人是真是假单说，吃素的这套理论吓到我了是真
他们为什么拍这种片子？我为什么还要看这个片子？为什么看着还觉得挺有意思？为什么看完还会向别人推荐？
广东人有点意见，不过还是算了，这不是恐怖片，这是喜剧
把模式化的剧本拍得很有美感。对于坚定肉食主义者和近期跟对象吵过架的人来说很是治愈。
20220501withkumamon美味咻咻咻
男主一个人撑起一部戏。两条线交错，最后ending在精神病院。导致我有些混乱前面所有的故事全都是臆想，还是酒店的部分是真实？
结局实在是很牵强，很一般的电影
怪异的片子。男主长得很可爱。黄秋生的梗挺逗。
之前看过，补标
法国人拍喜剧片确实挺好看的(๑•.•๑)，虽然看的是解说，不过后面我会找原片来看一看，体验一下的
很有意思的黑色幽默+讽刺电影，结尾太仓促扣一星。
7.1分。酣畅淋漓一气呵成的黑色幽默电影，许多笑点和很多镜头很是经典。法国版《人肉叉烧包》。
在插叙和场景/记忆交替中最终走向主题的升华，即对二次世界大战的反思…
氛围的营造很成功，男主角演技非常精彩，撑起了整个故事，不然的话人物内心深度挖掘不够的缺点会更凸显。趁着场面混乱从推车上捞起一本书藏进衣服的场景令人震撼：精神生活的丧失是比褫夺人身自由更大的剥夺。
“我现在是素食主义者了！——只吃素食者。”
其实还可以，只不过有些小细节还需要打磨。你能想象到一个喜剧和惊悚混合体的故事么？就像片里提到的“伊朗猪肉”一样荒诞的一整个故事。
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