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)
金玉其外，虽不是败絮，但就加上现代人爱看的LGBTQ，也实在算不上回味悠长。倒是DB文艺资深青年最爱拿来标榜品味的“命题作文”了。Kodi 演技那么寡淡居然还能拿金球男配，疫情期间也太缺人缺片缺推广了。
20220219le。细节很多的电影，但故事并不是开放的，看起来也挺类型化的，一种外表的强大，一种是内心的强大，前者终究是砧板上的鱼肉。音乐和摄影很棒的。
最后胡子剃光，还是那个熟悉的BC。
如果将六个月的时间线拉长至五十年，彗星指涉的正是气候危机——我们甚至能在永失故土的海岛居民中看到彗星的尾巴。然而环保主义者们确实是最弱势、离我们的过往经验与当下现实最远的政见群体，大多数人能在电影中看到的也确实是眼前的、即知的危机——比如疫情。
对人类绝望的电影：大众是缺少信息分辨与应对能力的民粹，精英也是只能看到政治、资本、或其他理解范围内的东西的民粹。
太含蓄，一切的表达都太含蓄，我觉得还是需要找到故事叙事和影像叙事的平衡点吧。最佳导演过了，给个最佳摄影也不赖
冲着坎皮恩、康伯巴奇、邓斯特看的，剧情有些复杂，人物关系比较扭曲，但并非本人喜欢的那种情节。相比起李安的《断背山》来说，这部电影的情节和人物更阴郁、黑暗一些，缺乏那种明朗、深沉的情感。
演唱会直播那一段给我看乐了，杏菜女士可不能白请。
三星半。和想象中完全不一样，归结起来算是个邪恶复仇故事。整体情感和情绪都很怪，男孩这个角色从开始就笃定要保护母亲，却深藏不露，是故事幕后的大boss，但角色被塑造得不怎么丰满，不够立体。摄影着实很美，但故事真的太怪了~
好惨一Phil，勤劳苦干被人设套毒害。
1-4章缓缓展开很精彩，到第五章突然就莫名其妙起来，菲尔突然就开始对男孩友善了，妈妈突然就要死要活了，然后就快速推进到了割炭疽牛皮，卖牛皮和借牛皮杀人了，和前四章的缓慢相比，简直是惊人速度要飞起来了，后面看了好多原著解读才搞明白是什么意思。可惜了前四章的铺陈实在很遗憾。
以前一直不懂卷福帅在哪里，这部片get到了。坎皮恩的功力还是深厚的，看得很舒服，然后地主给新婚老婆搬钢琴那段是致敬自己的成名作么😄……
这大气磅礴的运镜，细腻沉着内敛的气质，剧本的留白，一看就是大师气质，又是一部为奥斯卡量身定制的电影。卷福太惨，咎由自取，交心就是交命，以后对边缘群体可以防备，但还是多一些尊重吧。引用这届奥斯卡最火的一句话：At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you。共勉。
完全不是我预想的基片样子啊！😂 观影心情有些矛盾，一方面觉得节奏确实过慢了，一方面又真心喜欢过慢的节奏所赋予的特殊质感。导演剧本和主演应该在颁奖季都能有所收获。（本尼牛仔造型看上去也太像法鲨了吧！
民主党把持的好莱坞也开始刀刃向内，开足马力狂嘲女总统和口齿不清的老人家。
都在电影里了，很难用余赘的语言去评价这部电影。皇上啊，温柔刀，刀刀致命。
卷福的声音太迷人了#2022奥斯卡阅片倒计时#
简·坎皮恩俨然气象有大师风范，比30年前的《钢琴课》更深藏不漏。《断背山》之后最好的同性题材作品。
好闷的片子，大致就是说深柜不要装恐同，不要封建爹味被害妄想症，不要老房子着火相信美少年倒贴自己，会死。
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