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)
我的信念足以支撑我们两个人，（看到了初恋的无脑热血的自己
為什麼總要繞來繞去待到結婚生子了才出軌般的戀舊情呀⋯
New system will never come. 隔间里背后拥抱和受洗两段真的很涩，直接一个屏住呼吸。宗教题材始终不太感冒，但这里选的喻体都很恰当。结尾如果看文学本子是很好的，拍出来不知道哪里尴尬。J的气质好喜欢。
所有我以为“嗯 导演该让杰米发火了”的地方 杰米都没发火 天使一样的性格 表达自己的同时不会用火气去伤害别人 玛丽卡真的在想办法了 就是这个解题思路太emm了
中段看到馬麗克一些舉止就早已內心警鈴大響：吊女！渣女！別碰！觀影體驗算漸入佳境吧。喜歡這種收尾。
一般般吧 不甜也不刀 很平淡 看完感受就是：远离邪教！！
有些莫名，强行要和宗教挂钩的样子。插曲好听。
是我老了吗？ 成年人了，学会解决问题，对自己的人生负责。
莫名代入了一些侄女戏码，所以封锁人的也不一定是宗教吧。
看得快睡着，只记得住Jaime最后那两缕蓝发。
其他人都在闭眼祷告的时候，她们偷偷睁眼看向对方，然后一切都明了。
ta永远不会变老 不会变丑 永远都是记忆中的模样
本来想打三星 sigh I don’t get it
，无法思考决定自己的人生所以会很伤吧！
妈呀 最后的人妻造型更好磕了 一些背德文学…
很有烧女的感觉。“I think about you all the time, about us, do you?”“everyday.”这一句直接全片升华。
稀松平常的故事，不过是包裹着宗教和女同元素的青春期普通爱情
愿称之为#first love never die#
而且撩完就跑，跑完还结婚生子，生完了又跑回来这真是我雷点集合了🙃
（卫生间打扫的再干净我也🙅♀️）
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