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)
现代主义小说的图像呈现，碎片式剪辑，散乱无中心的叙事，癫狂的人物，糜烂而荒诞的生活。不该活的人依旧活着，本应活着的人悲惨死去，这是对魏玛末世的讽刺与悼念，讽刺德国即将到来的末日，悼念那时尚存理想的青年。
我在德累斯顿电话旁有烟蒂陪睡
6.0分，冗长乏味啊，叫好的回家多咀嚼几遍就离大湿不远了
如果你没有出现，我会变成什么样。
“没有好处，但有无用的美。”
干的全都兽事
挨饿就是因为胃口挑剔。
电影后劲儿特别大…酒吧混乱的相遇，朋友豪宅的狂欢，粘腻潮湿的爱恋，纯朴有冲劲儿的年轻人，纠结迷惘的女孩儿，一切都让人喜欢
无法忍受这种一个场景讲完整部电影的文本对话，根本就浪费了电影形式本身优势，甚至还凸显了其对大段文本表现的缺点，无法被观众快速吸收，无法停下来思考，只能囫囵吞枣的带过。这根本不需要导演，也不需要演员，不如出个短篇小说，或者这本就是将历史记录照抄上了银幕。
周日下午 我会从四点开始
柏林“娄烨被删电影”。
与其说是30年代德国剪影，不如说是纪念这三个友人的故事。幸福与破碎。
草他妈啊死编剧我杀了你！ 法比安，我爱你！抱抱你，你是我了解仍然很爱的人！时代变化，战争在发生，世界被自私的人建立起新秩序，忠诚、善良、有责任心的人被新秩序抛弃，所以我存在的世界才是这个操蛋的样子吗？诞生了这个操蛋的编剧，五颗星是给fabian的，编剧只配被我砍死
可怜的斯蒂芬——一个“有进取心的”青年黑格尔派
喝醉了的摄像师喝醉了的导演，旁白还换了好几个，8.5分？怎么看下去的，就因为开头有激情戏吗？
最喜欢的还是初遇时走在夜晚的路上。镜头角度变化多端、画外音引导剧情。fabian说我不想要成为你职业的绊脚石。他们在咖啡馆分别的一幕我以为他们会突然笑起来因为只是fabian写的故事的一种延续，他们还能继续生活在柏林。很有诗意的电影。他说你来柏林想成为伤心但成功的女人现在你真的做到了。没有力量留住爱人也没有力量救回朋友在时代的混乱和残酷之中他如此无力。
电影内容或许很有意义，也很有警示性，但这绝不能令它成为一部好电影
3小时的片长，老电影的画幅比，勾勒出1930年代魏玛共和国青年男女们的颓废糜烂。
而「法比安」也是這樣的，1931年。他活著，他死了。時代活著，德國卻又好像死了。愛人活著，愛人可能死了。夢活著，夢死了。
如此大的邪恶，以一场相对文明的会议形式达成。
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