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)
不太能引起共鸣，比真爱至上差了不少，老年组和少年组稍好一些吧
虽然有我最爱的姜河那但依然变不了情节老套的尴尬。 金英光和韩志玟那条线真的是，害 ，你的婚礼吧
韩版致敬真爱至上（？）老套的甜甜爱情，下饭可以～
姜河那大发。笑着笑着就哭了，2022还没有实感。
无脑暖暖小电影，看完就觉得全世界除了我都很幸福hhh
導演想拍愛的偶然與必然性，又想拍靈魂伴侶論，想法挺好，但是影片的剪輯太亂，最後哪個也沒顧到，缺了點靈性。
背影cos得不错，不知道《大话西游》还有多少肉没有被分割，这应该不会是最后一部《大话西游》……
为了我允看的 竟然最后了才出场🙉/整一个韩国版love actually
韩国也有这种明星大拜拜的片子啊，郭在容简直是导了个长小品。。。
觉得还不错。影片讨论灵魂伴侣。是，和不同的人组合有不同的优劣势，也许并不能找到最优解，以此得出灵魂伴侣不一定存在，也大概率没有唯一性。但这种论证方式无懈可击吗？其实爱情中相处的质量，更多取决于双方的品行和能力，两个品行和能力不错的人，大概率会相处得不错，边界感把握好了，即使有问题可能也能求同存异，但灵魂伴侣更重要的是灵魂感吧，灵魂的归宿在哪里，只有灵魂知道。
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不知道为什么这部电影评分不高，其实是部蛮轻松的电影，虽然感觉像明星大合集，但是也是挺有意思的呀，特别权相佑还客串了一个镜头
结论就是不存在什么soulmate 就看俩人过不过得到一块儿
好一般，原来韩国也有贺岁电影，合家欢的爱情电影，套路没有什么新意，有点乏味
在韩剧tv居然能看到一部这么新的电影，我还以为是以前的戏。好像真爱至上啊
片子只值一星，如果没啥好拍的，可以不拍，多一星给卡司
一月一号看的，也算是沾了沾气氛。
剧本和剪辑都蛮有意思。“苹果论”的比喻，与“灵魂伴侣论”进行互文，在猜测游戏中对真爱命题做论辩。想到《爱情三选一》。
2022.1.2新年第一部电影 韩国贺岁片大拼盘。李东旭真是霸道总裁西装挺拔啊，姜河那太可爱了。光柱也在。韩zw挺美的。韩国版love actually，后劲不足，看个热闹喜庆吧
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