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)
热闹不代表充实。
“有时身处热闹时才更感到空虚”红豆撒鼻息呢
名为剧场版其实是两个短篇。熟悉的味道……小妖的执念，追随的执念，附身的执念，胜负的执念……当然最后都会被平和地化解，本身也是相当平淡的冲突。
第一集节奏有点太慢了 像小孩子的动画片 第二集三筱的人形太棒了吧 水底的美男子 还是可爱的马卡龙紫色
一直都那么治愈，夏目已经能保护别人了TAT
此生无悔入夏目，来世愿做帐中妖！
后面那篇故事也太有意思了，以前怎么没发现三筱这么霸总
有生之年 两个小故事 剧场版的话有一点点赶进度 三蓧的故事更棒一点
夏目永远那么温柔，猫咪老师永远可爱，哈哈哈
三篠比试时会想让田沼看到
最爱的夏目，最爱的三三，最能治愈心灵的动画
猫咪老师胖得不像话，获得新称号“猫咪不倒翁”。夏目的友情破颜拳越发熟练。故事都好温暖哪~
Part1再不起眼积极努力你就值得被看见
夏目反过来对田沼说，有不确定的事一定要说出来啊；田沼也终于看到了夏目眼中的妖怪世间。只能小心翼翼的相处的，绝不是朋友啊， 温暖~
两个小故事，一个是虽然弱小，但因为使命感与被信任而最终完成使命。另一个是，朋友间相约嬉戏赴约。
两集动漫篇幅的小短篇，对于电影来说，未免过于单薄。
其实我并不爱看日本鬼神动漫，有点害怕。只是日本动漫版拍得不是很恐怖，反而很温馨立志。但本质还是鬼片。
温暖依旧，夏目系列可能是我唯一追的一部温情的动漫了。
2022.05.01 2.5
还是那么温柔，但是没有一开始的感觉了。可能我已经不是当初那么善良了吧。
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