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)
挺好。2050年人们会认为电影里是真实的，其实也挺真实的
5分 网飞的纪录片很美式 该有的有但很空壳 虽然都是同一样风格伪纪录片 cunk on Britain 更值得看
1、讽刺力度比2020去死差很多；
这两年发生的事情魔幻到分不清电影里哪些是真的哪些是假的。。
I love annual review and Lucy Liu.
你在2021年学到了什么？那就是在2020年我们什么都没有学到。
我觉得编剧风格和我写段子风格很像啊，我什么时候可以去给他们当编剧去？希望这片子每年都拍一部!
唯一有趣的一句“我们这代人的伍德斯托克”。
谁会在意它的套路和瑕疵啊？我在疯狂心空！谁不喜欢听话的大狗狗呢？就要帅哥美女涩涩！我好没出息！好喜欢网飞的这些爱情轻喜剧！
这个伪纪录片看着有点无聊。看完觉得这个世界真的是越来越烂了。
挺有趣的。真实资料+戏谑戏剧，虚实结合！不过更有趣的是，真实情况下的2021，并没有比镜头前的夸张景象减少一丝疯狂！反智的人还真是不少。。
大概世界是真的病了吧。。。
老美完全没从2020学到教训的又一年，梗和讽刺依旧密集。川普虽然不在了，但又无处不在，“我们应该在美国自己制造病毒变异株，而不是进口，make American germs again”。没有意外，年底又可以预订2022篇。
“去死”系列可能要成网飞的年终固定节目了。
笑点跟去年那部有过之而无不及，去年还一边笑一边感叹天灾无情，今年就全是在摇头叹气人祸胜天了。
關於開得起玩笑這件事，就值得4星，少打1星是因為太短了！不夠看！
从电影上看我更喜欢dont look up ，从喜剧博我一笑看我更喜欢这个，不太cinema ，像金凯瑞的脱口秀
還是很英式幽默 // what we learnt in 2021 is we learnt nothing from 2020
2021年度梗（即使是以美国梗为主）大乱炖盘点，笑死如果放在2021最后一天看就更好了
对民主党和共和党的讽刺力度完全不同，只能说就是好莱坞左派带着屁股拍的~
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