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)
最悲哀的是，肉体不能相随，只能寄希望于精神 live together forever
闻不到荷尔蒙的都不能称为青春片。最后女教练一句“男孩练花游要阳刚”把我给噎住了，倒是符合有关部门的精神和审美。
好磕吉米的颜，宗教真的太令人窒息，无论何时勇敢尊重自己的内心最重要，听到玛丽可要结婚那一段真的五雷轰顶，本来是简简单单谈个恋爱，最后直奔结婚去了……从心动到暧昧到再也抑制不住表露爱意这个过程最戳人。
I can believe enough for both of us.
浪费我生命的一个小时。我还从没给拉片打过这么低的分，就是个自传吧？不然不能写成这样吧
最悲哀的是，肉体不能相随，只能寄希望于精神 live together forever
青春电影不等于早恋和叛逆，而在于那些我们回不去的年少时光，和为了一个小目标而全力奋斗的热情。也许是我们高中的运动会和一二九合唱比赛，虽然简单、纯粹，但却是成年的我们再也无法找回的美好。
我不反感宗教，我反感的是存天理灭人欲😃我真的是接受无能……困惑、愤怒到了最后还是心酸无奈，觉得很可悲。为J感到心痛！小孩出现的那一瞬间我真的昏厥了
邪教真是害死人
？？？甚至都嗑不起来，配乐是音乐民工作品吗？
一般，最后俩人不应该再见面了，一个继续追求自由去旅行去交新的女友，另一个就在家相夫教子夜深人静时拿着明信片以泪洗面吧。
导演视听、表演、音乐审美都在线，难得能在中国院线看到一部各方面没雷点也不尬的青春片。但另一方面，人物和冲突的类型化又力道不够，过于平淡，除了结尾实在是有些燃点不足。
行吧 小小年纪爱一场！是你要选择结婚生子的 可惜了眼镜女！颜值是不错
这部剧让我总是浮现高中时组建一支辩论队去征战全省最强辩论队的春天。
好涩....感觉女主亲了八百遍🥵初吻那里真的太会了...好禁忌 不过结尾烂烂的...😓
起承转合挺不自然的。但是对这种宗教与同性恋、信仰与爱之间的冲突比较感兴趣。女二后面明显老了很多……
感觉急转直下开始be的部分有点仓促了，可能因为我最近生活中宗教含量过高，看电影反而不觉得那么宗教，倒是挺真实的。零零碎碎一些话挺好玩的，like“你们两个挺明显的”，“congregation is all we got”…啊！有些后劲儿在的。无关的，看到最后觉得可以看看哥林多前书，怪不得觉得最后quote的话非常熟悉，原来教会墙上挂了那几句。
什么宗教？太邪了。学生时候的小行为真的好让人悸动
今年看过的最佳姬片，目前看过的最佳青春姬片。比校园情圣更丰满，比很多青春姬片都真诚、自然，是青春片该有的样子。
我们应该拥抱，亲吻，森林海边远足，一起去欧洲。
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