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)
长诗转电影，兜转了那么久终究要谈最重要的承认问题，这当然能让人摆脱有死，但这里真正达成这重境界终究还是原著，而古董寓言的成长故事一经展开，确实是天生现实又自带浪漫，也貌似只有在这样的维度上，才能古典。
抛弃掉许多不合理的情景，这部电影是非常适合带小朋友观看的，单纯的新奇感，单纯的可爱。
整部影片还没有简介精彩，可能电影实在过于冗长，完全没有神秘感和紧凑的情节。
极其反对所谓的观影「门槛论」，文学的影像化归根到底是一个大众化、通俗化的过程，面对未曾读过原著的观众，创作者应当是以更下沉的心态去尝试在媒介转换的过程中设定更低的准入门槛，由此获得更多的认同。但即便如此，这样的一部电影也只能算得上是无关痛痒的情节复刻，间杂骑士文学的文本特质，佐以超现实桥段增加「高级感」，却丧失了创作者本身的能动性，因而观众亦有权利去批评，毕竟他们想要的远多于此。
Off with your head my knight
好家伙！我直呼我直呼，没想到这年头还会有这年头的电影，我寻思这应该是我寻思，不愧是最不愧是的A24，这符号属于是属于是了，这摄影这配乐这调度属实是属实了！果然大卫洛维就是果然！真是看君一长镜头，如看一长镜头！记得上一次看到这么热衷于拗造型的电影还是《扎导版正义联盟》。希望下一次看到这么这么的电影还是不要逼自己看完了。
漫步石林的那段黑白图像，我愿当作今年十佳。黑白到彩色的过渡很自然，就像时间在脑海里的痕迹，生活终究是有色彩的，希望每个人都能在告别里学会珍惜
视听体验极佳，可是除此之外好像就没有其他优点了，冗长拖沓，简单、却又故作深沉的内核撑不起整部片子，聊胜于无
视听享受，但这个享受并没有能带入到故事中，故事看得毫无趣味
如果DIVERSITY和ZZZQ就意味着秦始皇得由非我族类来演的话，那我宁可“落后”
被死亡分开的塔维亚尼兄弟中，保罗向维托里奥的告别，非常个人化的一部影片。
@Berlinale72 Friedrichstadt Palast @2022.2.29
最后用掌声为你送别
最终主旨也就是个成长故事
合家欢欢乐电影，我真的蛮喜欢这种以十多岁小孩子/青少年为主角的电影或者电视剧。。。柯南里我对少年侦探团的好感远大于洗衣机。。之前独立日二那个烂片，我映像深的点除了总统卧室，他的半弧形书桌，雷神弟弟。。还有就是几个小孩子驾车逃离末日。。。我真的会喜欢。。哥斯拉2也拉垮。。但是小女孩开车上路那一段我也真的很喜欢
骨灰、棺材、坟墓，死亡是主题。沉重的历史缅怀＞盖过了这部电影本身。
“献给我的孩子们，今日还是青春韶华，明日就垂垂老矣。”
未写就的剧本，是对兄长的告别，亦是对电影的告白。
尤为喜欢影片的风格，美术设计、画面、音乐与神秘未知的元素，有种回到小时候最开始听冒险故事的感觉。但是全片节奏迷离，有故弄玄虚的嫌疑，加上文化上的差异，很多体现在细微处的表达都被忽略了，如果开始我就知道国王是亚瑟王时看的时候就不一样了。
这松松垮垮的节奏….是在消磨我的耐心吗……无聊至极
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