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)
所有的故事都落俗套，但是在这个辞别旧岁的冬夜，就是需要这样的温暖感动。
那就祝见者新年快乐吧！喜欢韩智旻和憨憨的线，不然直接二星了。。。
为了我允看的 竟然最后了才出场🙉/整一个韩国版love actually
用最好的配置演最平庸的故事
老套又怎样，俊男靓女养眼，主题温馨，画面美丽，ost感人，太适合年末年初了！新年快乐！2022放手去做，大胆去爱，希望大家都能有新收获
in line with what they think about that there is no perfect match, or there is no “the one”. Love takes efforts.
很俗套的剧情 但是算是一个合格的合家欢电影 属于快乐结局 让人看了心暖吧 就是中途还挺无聊的
温馨的爱情拼盘 营销一下可以称为韩版《真爱至上》
女孩们都太美了！！但是吧 允儿应该没有在喜欢姜河那吧 不然太扯了吧 我不理解 （看了片尾，怎么会这样！！我真的不理解！！！是朋友还差不多）李栋旭怎么爱上的妹妹我也不理解 但是这对养眼 暂且同意了
我觉得挺好的，一众卡司演个大团圆，皆大欢喜
人物群像做的好失败 每个角色都塑造的很类型化且表面
前面有点冗长无聊诶 有点参考真爱至上的意思 最后大HE HAPPY NEW YEAR
韩智敏的弟弟在学校告白校园女神
嗯剧情好乱故事线有点多了 但就是说看个圆满结局的话和年末还挺搭
看到一众熟悉面孔还蛮好玩的，不过李栋旭那条线的故事是真的很老套
今天拿回了手机看完这个才觉得真的从2021来到2022😭明天有动力继续跟工作死磕然后过年咯
无聊，我本来就不喜欢真爱至上这种类型的，这还压根比不上真爱至上……
三🌟半，老中青三代的爱情故事，是老套的剧情，但冲着这么多喜欢的明星，而且过年喜庆就好～老年那对最后发现老婆已经离开那段也感动到我了！
但是能在岁末的冬夜里让我看到所有故事的美好
对一部爆米花电影也不必过于苛责，数熟人脸也不失为一种乐趣。
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