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)
可太好看了！嗲得嘞，灵得嘞！虽然浮于表面，可这皮相真是美啊！观众看得开心，演员演得开心，导演拍得也开心！
小而美的海派想象，可貴的幽默感讓作品顯得輕盈不離地。喜歡蘇北人驅趕自行車和老白李小姐天台抽香煙。老烏去世以後的20分鐘感覺有點沒必要。
男人女人性别政治美食腔调异域迷影，当代人的爱情神话。
台词、演员、故事、情调，无一不佳（除了那个韩流儿子
有一点很有意思
3.5. Neither a masterpiece of realism nor a disastrous, complete sham, this film is roughly as good (or as bad) as a mid-tier Rob Reiner/Norah Efron rom-com. The real question is whether we could still afford to enjoy such a film innocently in this day and age.
拍上海，终于不用拍江边高楼、陆家嘴白领和民国电车了。台词密度高、包袱巧、节奏感强，几位几乎都是上戏出身的演员也张力十足，全片沪语对白，把那种可能这里独有的，清高、市井又随时自嘲的文艺中年的微妙腔调表达得十分到位。简直是伍迪艾伦在上海！
已經記不得多長時間沒去上海了。我一說起我對這座城市的感情。多數人的反應還是不解。上海予我有著不易啓齒並非同凡響的意義。其它的城市。好一點的是像一個城市。不好的是在模擬一個城市的樣子。而上海。它就是一座城市。有下不完的雨。走不盡的路。看不夠的人。。
又相信爱情了（bushi）
另外，难道就找不到一位上海的年轻演员吗？一个上海味的片子，普通话都显得异样。找一个同样文化环境的演员很难吗？
全程舒适。店名里藏了《红拂夜奔》，翻译和校对也藏了《红拂夜奔》。
中国的法式轻喜剧… 接地气，不做作的一部能让人会心一笑的电影，国产片子里很难得
没有跌宕起伏，但茶米油盐十足，尽显上海烟火气，还能不失修罗场。唇枪舌剑之间，抖尽有趣的机灵。咖啡馆、老房子、进口代购店、有调性的邻居、上海弄堂、单车，文艺中年，种种讲究，种种端着，自娱自乐，自成生活，大抵如斯。PS：离开影院后，默默地取消了费里尼版《爱情神话》的想看。毕竟，讲“俗”，我大概跟他们一样吧。
是一出轻松的爱情小品。人只有在面对自己时，真正表达自己时，才会有真正的深度。而男人看女人，女人看男人，其实都不会那么深刻，显现的还是表象的状态。其实没有人是白纸，也不会有人是透明的。人是理性情感混杂的动物，有的人简单点，有的人复杂点，口是心非是常态，大家都有自己内心的秘密，没有谁能被一眼看透。
就因为这部电影
圣诞最大惊喜，成功憧憬起44岁留着紫色头发抽着细香烟的日子，也唤起对上海最美好的记忆，中年和我的朋友骂骂咧咧的生活，希望到时间我也能有这么多艳遇哈哈哈，当然还要有一套自己的小房子，这样的日子，慢慢地过也很美~
可能真真切切在上海生活过的人代入感会很强，虽然他是小洋楼里的上海，但里面表现的上海男人，上海女人，上海的下午茶，上海的梧桐树，特别是藏在方言里那个性的劲，真的非常灵。剧本结构非常扎实，音乐和本体特性的使用很有伍迪艾伦的感觉。就像每个走在上海街道的夜晚，散步，小酒..
昨天看完电影《爱情神话》，今天还在回味。
你以为是欧洲迷影，其实恰好是三四十年代中国电影的路子。
有闲有钱的上海土著上演的城市生活，带着沪语方言外露的傲娇，有些像欧洲的爱情轻喜剧，弥漫浓厚的地方特色和小资情调，在有限的空间中人与人之间的关系是最大的戏码。只是感觉音乐的使用有过度之处，一些过渡可以更加轻巧些。这部片子还让我突然意识到的是，我所日常路过的上海的街巷不只是徒有精致的立面和闲适的氛围，隔着一定的距离，每天也正在发生着具体而可爱的故事。
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