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)
国产片都这么好好拍多好，除了情节有点简单没毛病
我已经预想印度全国都飘彩虹旗了我国还挂wb图
家庭永远是亚洲人过不去的一道坎。何以解忧？唯有骄傲。
剧情实在太拖拉了，时长太长，歌舞部分我真的有被尬到，全片的闪光点估计是题材设定和男主的身材……
还算不错的低成本电影，基本都是新人演员表演的也还不错
潮汕人看了都会笑的电影，很生活化接地气，把现实和喜剧很好地融合在一起
中国人口的希望在潮汕，正如世界人口的希望在绿绿
希望happy ending尽快照进现实
尊重就好 @2022-04-03 19:16:43
穿插了歌舞元素还蛮轻松的，一开始还以为男女主人公的取向会逆转，是我世俗执念了。
影片讲述了很多潮汕地区的风土人情，在祭祀风俗上的方方面面，其实是有起到宣传当地文化习俗的作用，潮汕地区给我们的印象也不再是之前那么死板。在这个充满人情味的地方，里面的人也在不断地适应迅速发展的社会，不会固步自封。
之前对潮汕的印象只有潮汕牛肉丸/奶奶好好玩儿/真的是纯方言，普通话对白都没有二十句，完全听不懂，全靠看字幕
印度这样的国家可以拍这样敏感话题的电影，而且拍的还是这么的诙谐、真诚而又温暖，值得让人高看这个国家的未来！
在能力范围内做得还不错，“带你去见我妈”，“你”只能是一个被带的主体，拍不了你我还拍不了我妈么。潮汕方言环境的陌生化，给一个不求突破的故事带来了挺轻松舒适的观感。
2018年才将同性恋去罪化的印度，2022年已经拍出直面有关形婚, 同性恋领养方面的电影了！
两代人，与时俱进和跟不上时代的父辈的沟壑其实是越拉越大的，从理性的角度年轻人没法理解上一代所有的想法，但是情感上却有着无法割舍的联系，我一直是偏理性的，所以在为人处世上会得罪很多至亲的人，客套和圆滑是我不想做的，但我不否认乡土的人情世故有其浓浓的乡味，一段时间的代入和沉浸是远离家乡的游子日思夜想求之不得的。对于一直身处其中的年轻人这是故乡的围城。各有所得吧。哪天也和我妈坐次飞机吧。
tags: 2020s / 中
印度果然很现实的谈问题，希望找到平衡，这过程和结局大概就是现实生活中的同志平衡了各方利益的样子。Les的故事线穿插进来算是一个亮点。
喜欢年下但最后换人的男通讯录和喜欢高学历医生姐姐的女通讯录
赞同杭州友人所说的，真实接地气的风土人情方言片在“虚情假意的文艺泛滥的年代”是一股清流🐶
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