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)
2022-02-16
国语配音版。基本可以预料到能看到些什么，不会有太多惊喜。不过因为不了解这个运动员，稍微有些意外原来很快就取得了成功，又从低谷重新振奋。题材类似，但觉得《了不起的老爸》更好一些。
@深影 特别特别好 虽然这次北影节看了我喜欢的卓别林 但还是鼓励自己要多发掘新片 就像上次在上影节看的蜂蜜之地一样～ 湿润的洞穴很像人的脾脏 屏幕里看到烧纸一点点往下坠时我发现自己闻到了烧焦的味道 光线突然亮起来的时候偷偷观察了看电影的人们 开阔的远景镜头让人如临其境 探险小队给我很舒展的感觉
弟弟有多无辜呢，作为哥哥的工具人出生，他也有自己的人生啊，弟弟就不是妈妈的儿子了吗，太过分了。
#BJIFF2021# 9.28 美嘉三里屯 杜比全景声，运用声景soundscape；三里屯看了这么多场中间位子，最该坐在前排的偏偏买了后排的票，离屏幕太远难以入戏，倒是不觉得慢，还觉得剩一半呢就结束了
声音处理的很好 画面真的太美了 这样的片子即便我睡着了 我也不敢说无聊 我不敢随便否定导演的用心
对残疾人运动员的内心和训练发掘较深。上映时间恰逢东京残奥会临近。吴君如表演比较优秀。我个人认为可以四星。
不过，没看懂副线里老爷爷生老病死和主线探险队进入洞穴的关系😅
基本上2000年悉尼那場戲，後面那些旗，對内容表達是相輔相成。加油，頂住啊！
20210929 11thBJIFF@合生汇寰映 声光杰作。对于这样一部影片的欣赏是需要一些耐心的，我很感动的是看到很多观众等到影片滚屏放完才离开座位，那一刻感觉爱电影的人真可爱。
幸亏在电影院看的，导演完全站在自然那一边，非人视角和高音量的背景音 黑白那一段向上探索有些刻意。人类的探索和生命都是Nothing happens at the end. That's it.
#2021IFFMH# 4.5 / 人归于自然和人深入自然，两种融合的结合。
开场前想的是我绝对不能睡结果还是眯了一下。初步了解了人类是怎么勘测一个洞并确定它有多深的。👍
中间一度要睡过去 被老人的唤牛的口哨？震得清醒 结尾时的水滴声到中午吃饭的时候还能回想起来
「妈妈的神奇小子」20210821
只是不一样的人生路，不再被觉得励志什么的。
探险戛然而止，生命戛然而止，遗体运过山头，图纸的终结不似前笔细腻，空白，空白，空白……后面几十分钟情节上终于开始有意思，你知道它终会停止，它也毫无波澜地停止了。
工整的小品。人生最后一段的苦痛如同探洞也如同观看探洞,前者是表现,后者是沟通。不断向下,不断前进,行至极狭处并不会豁然开朗,只是保有一汪浑浊的潭那样最后的尊严。大特写接大全景,声音的自然、自由绵延了时间,甚至创造了时间。北影节最后一部电影,最大的满足。
对残疾人运动员的内心和训练发掘较深。上映时间恰逢东京残奥会临近。吴君如表演比较优秀。我个人认为可以四星。
#BJIFF2021# 开始的感觉像在看画，光影很棒。探洞也很好玩，火球撞击岩壁的声音竟然那么大，而人在洞中越来越小。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
