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)
这样的电影，才是真正的在拍电影，导演太有才了
光怪陆离，荒诞，战争，毁灭，开端，一切即是结束，也亦是开始。
现在竟然还有这种电影...一点剧情没有？一点看不下去...视频作品集的感觉...跟堆砌词藻没啥区别就是无聊
人类用共同想象建构起秩序，这个秩序又成为折磨我们的疯神。
你永远都猜不到下一个场景会有多恶心，刚用面包虫喂完我的守宫...
我也是真困，分了三次才看完，中途迷瞪好几次
荒诞恐怖，但是依然给了高分，这种艺术对于人类而言还为时过早
词汇表里 除了封神 只有烂的 对于一切无法理解的事物 只有两种走向的认知思维
想看明白那是挺难的，没几十年精神分裂的功底是不行的，不过确实如人所说，挺牛逼的！
卡司里老的少的好演员这么多，电影拍得不错也是理所应当，也确实扭转了我对张伯伦的一些看法，大概是最近几天看了点一战相关吧，多少能够理解他避战的怀柔立场。然后看到演ss的八月和演反抗军杰尼斯的对手戏就一边感叹德国演员中青年交接棒，一边又有点想笑，德国电影圈子这么小，这些人不是在演nazi就是在演jew的路上，再不然就是国防军，反正谁都跑不了
民间，才是本来的样子，才是真正的、欢乐的人间烟火的样子。
丘吉尔活成了大英帝国的面子，张伯伦活成了大英帝国的里子？绥靖主义应该不会重演吧。张伯伦选择绥靖，是基于“要和平不要战争”的强大民意，当下不是那样的舆论环境。
可怕的梦魇，可怕的想象力
4.5 屈服于美术！Diesel punk的极致！各种手法的拼贴让人想起Dave Mckean的插画 定格动画这个载体本身已经很能代表质量了 即使只是堆叠起来的片段 叙事什么的都不重要了——
两星敬佩制作过程，不过太冗长了，完全可以压缩一半的。
【9】在他自己的噩梦里，他是疯狂的造物者。从未有过的奇特观影体验，一场纯粹的睁眼做梦之旅，沉浸到来不及反应：它是几乎没有剧情和对白的。曾经梦到过那种语言难以形容的cult画面，所以它是目前最接近我梦境的电影。极其私人化的片子，就好像怪奇生物设定集成精，喜欢的会爱惨，讨厌的干脆别看。
时间轮回更迭，欲望终究会受到惩戒。我只看懂了一小部分，但是大受震惊，太cut了
Mind blowing !! So cool !
献给肮脏混乱疯糜的赞歌 我愿称之为cult元素大杂烩的情怀向艺术。虽说超过一小时的篇幅或多或少会让人审美疲劳，但还是爆赞 巨赞 噩梦赞。电影是自由的 精神性癖是自由的 审美是自由的！假设我说“我看疯神的时候真的嗨爆了”，会被人以为是精神病或者地狱人吗？……我真的嗨爆了。
张伯伦牺牲了自己的名声，却让全世界看清了希特勒的真面目，并且为英国和盟军备战准备了时间，最终打败纳粹……这简直是「一盘好大的棋」。
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