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)
太好看了吧！！！太好笑了真的很戳我笑点，尤其最后love actually那一段真的笑到我跟我男人两个在床上打滚！然后真的很浪漫也很家庭非常适合圣诞看！这个是真爱至上之后我最爱的圣诞电影了必须每年看一次！五颗星！！！大家快去看笑死我了！！
online dating有多不靠谱，可以培养出一个写手？
三十年河东三十年河西，jing yang都开始拍爱情片啦
呃…男的欺骗在先 又拉着女主骗自己家人 搞得女生两边不讨好 结果最后女主还cos真爱至上去跟男主求爱？这部主创都是男的吧？
nina确实老了，但年轻的时候好美啊！！！！
男主角出场的时候，当然知道套路，但是镜头扫到他脸上的时候，我还是发出了银铃般的笑声。这片子，开玩笑，一点也不差好嘛，我看得好高兴，很多设计编排竟然神奇的化解了那些俗套带来的感受，而且我不得不说男主对这片子是有功劳的，喜欢。
This one was to reflect and to finish our dishonesty and false signals in relationship lies. Do the right thing. Hold up your precious love.
平安夜看圣诞电影，正合适。好可爱好暖心，圣诞正合适的一点点drama和cliche都恰到好处
看到开始就猜到了结局。。看到一半就想为什么我要看。。但是看完了。。又觉得还蛮温馨。。这是什么鬼👻
满足了对圣诞爆米花爱情电影的大部分期待，欧阳万成应该让很多人都想起了自己的某位朋友啊哈哈，我真的对可爱真诚的nerd没有抵抗！也希望亚裔脸能多多出现在主流媒体不是stereotype的影视作品里
没有出彩的剧情和值得回味的记忆点，感觉爱上才是狗血
I don’t but it at all
欧阳 Jimmy ！ way to go!
Love actually is my favorite Christmas movie. Die hard is not a Christmas movie.
网飞可不可以不要为了迎合潮流每个月都要出几部这种烂片？
Looking for someone who can see me for who I am 熟悉的美式风格 适合放松
欧阳 Jimmy ！ way to go!
连我这么爱看合家欢爆米花电影的人都觉得有的地方真是太cheesy了……
Jimmy O Yang and Nina Dobrev make this movie so much fun to watch! 我觉得是最近看过最搞笑也很温馨的电影，二人搭档又意想不到的效果，推荐！
典型的圣诞电影，very predictable
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