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)
靠本事赚钱没什么不好的。
4.5星 暂时是今年看过最有惊喜和喜欢的一部 男主戏内很charm 特里劳妮教授演技也很棒棒
“Good luck to you.”两人的聊天竟然没有快进 不用拉窗帘吗 地毯不脏吗（关注点错
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*【2022-6-22下载外挂字幕再看，越看越好看，从我之前看8.1/8.4目前已经差不多一天涨一分的速度了】
Nancy Stokes /stəʊks/ to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat. 添加燃料以撥旺（爐火）by Cambridge Dictionary. 看到最後一場戲時上個月碰巧在HBO 刷完Wit的我真實哭成傻逼⋯⋯親親我湯嬸子！
每个人干好自己的工作就好了，有的人爹味很浓，有的人妈味很浓，电影中能和解的始终只是电影，现实中可能就互爆真名报复了。
角色场景都如此之少，却一点也不乏味。无尿点看完全片，跃跃欲试哈，国内哪里找😏
因为过分真实，老阿姨的紧张和絮叨看得人好累
剧本过于工整了，还有汤普森阿姨这惊天一脱，我的妈呀！[B+]
无论是已婚未婚离异甚至是独身主义
涉及到职业理解和价值定位、内心自我与现实的统一、家庭问题、观念禁锢、人生突破，无论陌生人之间还是血缘家人间，归根结底还是理解、关怀和接受的问题。人与人之间的理解、关怀、接受的问题深挖都是自我认知、认同、处理和表达的问题。
另外性解放依然应该以道德和法律为基础，片子里探寻的道路太不符合现实了。
电影是写得弱了些，架空的白日梦，然而汤普森演得真的太好。社会建构加诸女性思想和身体的规条实在太多，难以摆脱，连幻想都摆脱不了亲情修补。弯女类似题材的《脑震荡》倒还可以看看，也是白人中产阶级的幻想
因为过分真实，老阿姨的紧张和絮叨看得人好累
剧本以对镜自照作结，第四段末从性（有目的的、近乎宣言式的、愉快的性）一下转到refresh自我，堪称豹尾，也很大程度上消弭了全片性元素之工具化的扎眼感：如果不是结尾一笔，我会质疑编剧通过分散在四个有设计感、功利性强、易概括、前后有递进感的段落中各类细碎小话题（有的话题被探讨得很好，但有的则浅尝辄）和包含在内的男女主的背景故事是否能达到对性的理解和释然，更遑论全片都没有一个毫无功利性的关于性本身的段落，一切都停留在台词上的认可（尤其是第四幕那个在咖啡馆的关于性的宣言，甚是功利）但既然最终落脚点停留在自我，那被工具化的性和旁枝斜曳的人生话题是不影响整体框架的。这种点到话题就假装达成释悟的片子我愿称之为教学片。Emma表演太有说服力了，在程式化的剧本里依然塑造了完整的有厚度的动人的女性。
I'm glad you came.比起电影或许更加适合舞台剧，如同性爱一样，想要看到两位演员每一次临场的不同的表现。
这个故事如果发生在我国，大概是女学生反手一个举报电话，警察破门而入逮捕男女主角，end
还挺喜欢如今自己的观影习惯：因为豆瓣八点多的高评分而产生兴趣，并在对影片基本未知的情况下直接找来观看，然后，没想到女主角竟然是艾玛·汤普森，没想到讲述的是这样的“情色”故事，想起，之前有刷到与本片相关的新闻，但那时并没有细看，所以对这部影片的了解才会如此之少，最后，又一次收获到如“开盲盒”般的惊喜观影体验。
真好啊，直视身体，直视欲望，最后的高潮来得太妙。不被束缚的纯洁关系，比爱情有趣，是幻想也好，是假的也罢，谢谢你，温柔的Leo.
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