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)
低龄治愈片～虽然我已经回想不起Clifford 长什么样了，但看的时候感觉还挺欢乐的
心情不好的时候最适合看这类电影，轻松，搞笑，有爱。
基于皮兰德娄的生平、作品，但保罗·塔维亚尼从一开始就代入了对哥哥维托里奥的纪念，恐怕没有哪个观众不会被影响。虽感伤但更让人看到了西西里人的从容，甚至每段都有诙谐元素
沉郁而悲伤，是Paolo对Vittorio的告别式。用Kaos为不曾共同实现的The Nail写下注脚，隔着漫漫时光的回望在黑白与色彩交替的场面化作一丝轻叹。前2/3的荒诞与神秘是Pirandello的幽灵在Taviani兄弟的历史戏剧元叙事中逡巡。后1/3则明显断裂，不知所措。从剧本中删除的《游吟诗人》唱词Leonora addio…被保留成为标题，同样飘荡如幽灵，就像片中无处不在的Vittorio。
喜欢《鬼魅浮生》的我第一时间买了这部，结果只好承认看得比较懵，经过长评的辅助才知道原来是亚瑟王后续故事，还是我们托尔金老师一手推广的，不过视听语言和导演前作一样很特别很有味道，稍显悚然的气氛营造赞，从一年后上路开始，骑士和一只不离不弃的漂亮小狐狸的试炼旅程逐步变得有趣起来，帮助幽灵找回失落的头颅，踏入巨人的领地，去抵达一个离奇的绿色承诺，坎妹太美了，我一度以为小狐狸就是坎妹变的；另外片中像听莎翁剧般的古英语台词格外文雅 #SFM341
摄影上自然光的运用很出色，但过于有板有眼，配乐聒噪，叙事悬念铺垫还可以，故事矛盾产生的自然，但未在叙事中解决，而是用公路手法转移注意力浅尝辄止，拿来和巴里林登对比会发现缺陷很明显，到了后半段简直灾难，已经是在圆一个故事，结尾莫名其妙，导演悟性的问题
20210924le。喜欢电影的精致。虽然剧情稍微有点故弄玄虚，但还是很好理解的，并非十分严肃的艺术电影。3.5
好美好美，阴郁又古典，没想到如此传统（老旧？）故事的影像化会这么美。
@Berlinale72 Friedrichstadt Palast @2022.2.29
放得下的归土，放不下的归海。多么蓝的大海，多么红的头发！作家手执长钉，永负其罪，直至在红发中燃烧。
长篇叙事诗。导演野心很大，敢用亚瑟王圆桌骑士的故事玩meditation，听说借鉴了塔可夫斯基的《安德烈•卢布廖夫》，学习尚未成功，还有继续努力的空间，还可以再大胆一点。
开头慢了点，后面太怪诞趣味了，太有才了这个导演！有点被涂污的鸟那种感觉！堂吉诃德版本的黄粱一梦！
悲欣交集（撒骨灰这么俗 也能流下两滴猫眼泪
黄粱一梦，放在中国，就是得道升天，或是遁入空门的路径。
“东方人看这个片子相当于毕赣拍了部沉香救母给西方人看”
开始以为看了个奇幻电影 中间以为看了个恐怖电影 看到最后 好家伙 原来是个文艺片
其实观众对亚瑟王和他继承者的故事没关系，没看过他们的民间诗歌也没关系。有隐喻也不是问题，但通篇密不透风都是隐喻，半点出气口都不留就是个问题。其实...通篇都是隐喻也能拍得很好，这就要看导演的功力了，动如《黑客帝国》静如《少年派的奇幻漂流》都是通篇隐喻，就撑得起来。总而言之，没金刚钻别揽瓷器活。
狗狗很可爱…但是这么溜这么大的狗还不拴绳不能忍。
一出受难诗 故事没有问题 - 所谓若见诸相非相 即见如来；但前1/3我给零分 如果大卫洛维已经完全接棒了A24的空洞美学 我只好替他遗憾
叙事够简单，2.5吧，整体是两头不讨好的作品。局部表达可以看出Lowery的作者性很羸弱，而投身产业条线后，反倒让人误以为是文艺大导被商业制作禁锢住表达一般。与其说是惋惜，不如说是心疼，一个有文艺梦但拍不出水平的尴尬导演。
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