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)
汝是自由之身，某旧地盼归。
前一個小時還能看，之後覺得男女倆沒事找事作天作地，到最後變味了，傳教片
我连《2020去死》还丢在硬盘里没来得及看呢，2021又该去死了。
This is the way he loves us.
Gemma终于约会了，即使结局不算好。
是最渴望突破的自己
善良加颜值高的男主，电影名字如同女主问得问题，答案正是男主… 不过现实中不存在这样爱情故事吧…
Paul，又是装假汤老湿的一天，要啥没啥。
结尾处女主说道，I will never take off it，是女主通过坚强和勇敢找回的自信，完美的结局👍
从信仰的角度看，太感动了
怎么会有这样好的人。每个人都有罪，活着的意义就是原谅和爱。原谅自己，爱别人。
没有2020好玩了，今年本身就没有去年那么多戏剧性的大事，片长短了10分钟，制作也比去年水了，不过网飞这个系列不要停啊每年底这种吐槽还是值得的
结局大家可以放心，是HE，可以放心观看。看完电影，从一个“小姐”身上看到了救赎，可对比起现在，我觉得还是没有可比性的，现在的大多数是为了💰，电影里的女主刚开始只是为了基本生活。到这里就会有一个问题，女主是一个好女孩吗？我想肯定是的，我一直认为一个女孩有趣的是她的灵魂，是不是处或许已经不是那么重要了，只要爱是真的那就是一个好女孩
汝是自由之身，某旧地盼归。
借着影片看见上帝的爱。
在遭遇痛苦之后，意识到自己的一小部分已经永远死掉，但剩下的大部分依然存在，支撑着我们继续去爱、去生活，只因为“心脏是一块恢复能力极强的小小肌肉”———这是所有人命运唯一的相似之处：一切的一切，不过是在无意义中发现意义，在godlessness中验证god
Angel第一次离家出走我完全可以理解——她的出身太惨了。八九岁就失去父母被卖给老变态侍寝，之后也一直在妓院摸爬滚打。
能当贺岁喜剧看的伪纪录片。The era of predictable unpredictability is not going away.
不能理解为什么多次把婚结归还回去，快乐哥说人的本性很难改变，之前一直做着的事情。突然不做了，会不习惯。不过还好，最终，爱，改变了这一切。希望现实生活中，爱也能有如此强大的力量！
这是准备每年出一部了吧，twenty twenty too笑不出来：（
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