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)
偏文艺，我与非我，什么决定了我之所以成为我，生命、感情延续与伦理冲突这些问题的探讨，没有太过深入，也没有太大触动。对于这类科幻片，我一向觉得利用科技移植或者复制意识，是非常恐怖的事情，因为能够毫无差别的复制人类意识，就能够做修改、进行操控，那样的时代场景，绝对不是人类盛世。
还真是挺讽刺的……
原来真的就这样接替了人生啊
硬科幻代表了无垠宇宙
苹果生活美学风尚大赏。看的时候全程：下面是不是要大撕逼了？下面是不是要大撕逼了？该大撕逼了吧？结果一直没有。
和《杨之后》一样探讨科技与人的情感主题。感觉这样的类型更适合做成《黑镜》小而美的故事，做成电影反而冗长。
科幻伦理片，马赫沙拉·阿里的演技很棒。细想一下，这项技术也许对家人很好，但让患者一个人孤独地在疗养区等死，是不是有点太残忍了，家人的临终关怀应该也挺重要的。
两个人的相遇火车上吃错巧克力。我觉得这部电影动人在展现了男人的纠结，他做出了决定一方面又有担心和舍不得，但是妻子怀孕了，他需要留下一个可以守护她的人。黑人演员的演技非常真挚，双角色扮演难度应该挺大的。
人类掌握了分子级别的生物克隆技术，
唯有爱是永恒
快半年没一个人在家看电影了，我可太喜欢这种血腥喜剧片了，老美在电影工业方面是厉害啊👍🏻
在古希腊神话中 , 天鹅是阿波罗的神鸟 ,故常用来比喻文艺 。传说天鹅平素不唱歌 , 而在它死前 , 必引颈长鸣 ,高歌一曲 , 其歌声哀婉动听 , 感人肺腑 。这是它一生中唯一的 ,也是最后的一次唱歌 。如果是你，你会做出这样的牺牲和抉择么？
还真是挺讽刺的……
I was happy,floating,staring at the stars.
我看见生命中的往昔
不想去評判克隆人的道德云云，只是想知道，如果是為了愛，就可以無限延續嗎？只要有一絲的可能性，是不是都要盡一切所能嘗試？
可是完整的人生
如果娱乐电影都能有这个水准就好了。//美学跟《王牌特工：特工学院 》是一卦的，血腥暴力的场景都处理得有想象力。//一个意外赠送，才看完整季《火线》没多久，居然就看到了“Stringer”的扮演者领衔主演的电影。
事到如今，主流娱乐片的发展方向已经很清晰了：既然认真拍片吃力不讨好，索性放弃以前的模式，情节布置和动作设计都不必讲究，只需把感官刺激最大化。但如今的年轻人又不喜欢过于真实的残酷，所以是唯美化过后的感官刺激。主角们尽可以不用有智商，反正别人说起来还可以无辜地表示：我们就是想拍一种莫名其妙的冷幽默。问题是这种莫名其妙既不搞笑也不是很有趣啊。
避開了倫理矛盾，取而代之的是寡淡溫吞的情感，出戲之餘更在意bug，爲什麽摔倒時手錶沒報警（這還是蘋果出品的電影），爲什麽隱形眼鏡視頻沒眨眼。
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