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)
-一本书很感人？那就说它故作感伤；
我几乎没看过什么小说，名著改编的电影倒是很感兴趣。出自电影《玛格丽特》（Marguerite，2015）导演之手的这部同名电影，表现出多少原著的深度我不知道，但呈现巴尔扎克“法国 19 世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家”这头衔，肯定是满分的。通过这个落入红尘的文学天才的故事，我们可以一睹欧洲贵族光鲜背后的那个世界。
Pineapple will save us from poetry!就非常basic或者說老套的名著改編，男主也說不上有魅力（大概就是土和演技麻麻吧，主要看起來就智商很低）當年看小說的時候是很喜歡的，但電影實在是睏到不行，多蘭這個扮相實在太奇怪了，好好搞導演事業別演了哥（
He stopped hoping, and started living. Everything has a price, even for the eternal restplace. In Paris, things are on sale, on display. There are trades everywhere, you trade your soul for money, for sex addiction, for social status, even for a little respect. Never learned the rules, you trade everything for nothing. Game over, illusions predues.
场景，服装，音乐都超一流。 经典之所以是经典，在于其永不过时。或者说时代再如何进步，有些东西是不会变的。 因此看到了太多了可以折射的影子。
让我想去读一下原著了～巴尔扎克系列在现今社会越来越具有警示作用。
好帅嗷嗷嗷，进度条撑住啊啊啊啊啊，前方高能细细品味 ，你看你看
一星给旁白，帮助了解剧情。男主性格不好情商不行，结局在意料之中。
救命，这竟然改编自19世纪的小说，太他妈超前了，尤其是关于报社以及宣发推广那块，这不就是我的苦逼工作吗，太特么有代入感了
极具天赋的文艺青年的幻灭之路。在他摸清了巴黎新闻界的些许皮毛之后，一度曾十分自负的认为自己拥有了全世界，而在那短暂的虚荣巅峰之后，他为自己的狂妄付出了代价。巴黎从未向谁真正敞开尊贵的大门，盛宴之下，满目疮痍，人人都是小丑，人人皆为蝼蚁。这是200年前的巴黎，也是现在。
多兰的戏份可以再多一些吧！主演小哥演的很传神！
个人很喜欢 很感慨 旁白配合影片 一点都不枯燥 大场面制作也很精美 小细节做的也很妙 在我们日常生活里 许多人何尝不是眼看他起朱楼 宴宾客 眼看他楼塌了 …
女孩倒下的时候我的心跟着一起碎了 巴尔扎克写得好
Coralie一开口就是个2022年的高中生
少不经事的诗人既想要地位，又想要金钱，纸醉金迷中遭遇背叛，失魂落魄中返乡。贵族、记者，巴黎、外省，诗歌与享乐，声名与吵闹，无闻与排挤，人们推搡着向幻觉朝圣，然而不论历尽几番辛苦，最终都不得不忠于自己的内心，就像身无分文的Lucien，和故事的讲述者Nathan.
拍巴尔扎克的作品真的很少见。里面还有多兰，开始还以为我认错了，不看身高的话颜值很打眼，而且演得挺不错啊。
终于看到了一部有劲儿的电影？爽，终于没有虚度一个午后！
与当下互文过于密切，以至于看完有一种恍惚，对历史重复性的幻觉
爱情，爱情，该死的爱情。
人生本绵长，点点欢喜多是伤。
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