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)
通过CFA看到了苦难面前人们不计一切的互帮互助，也在这两年看到了数以万计这样的例子，不管怎样，“永葆热爱，永怀善良，永远温柔”仍然是我们面对残酷最好的武器。
好有魅力的鸭鸭
Four business meetings between an old female teacher and an young oil rig man
关于911的并不鲜为人知的另一面，足够温馨
还只看过饭拍版。制作很精良，也能煽动我流泪，但其实我不能完全共情，事件离我太遥远了。
我们都值得在赤裸面对真实自己时更加自信与强大。
I am an islander 来自陌生人的善意是这个世界的基石～女机长的独唱～旅途相遇的中年情侣的对唱等几首令人印象深刻
20年了，这群像剧的切入视角真的不错，彷佛完全没有关系的地方和人们。以及我隐约想起疫情之前好像来过上海巡演？？没去看真是太遗憾了TAT
感谢音乐，在尚未解除隔离的世界里，让我们回到了共享回忆的那一天。即便是遥远的纽芬兰，也没有人可以画地为牢，而当世界无法被关在外面时，希望我们都能和Islanders一样报以温情。
I'm an islander. 纽芬兰岛Gander小镇。喜欢女机长的故事，原型是 Beverley Bass, the first woman captain for American Airlines. "And the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb" 真是听着很让人心痛。
没有什么比真诚对待自己和别人更美好的事了，更没有什么比直面自己更勇敢的事了。
本来想2020年五月回国看的，可惜一个疫情打乱了一切。机长和我的驾校教练长得太像，导致我时不时就跳戏XD
就像某天下午给自己定了一个学期摆脱bodyshaming的课程。
一部让人舒服、给人安全感的电影，即便有看似挑战的话题下，叙事策略依然在“治愈”的思路上不停探索衰老的欲望，和人生的意义。
靠某本书沟通那里属实恶心到我了，我也说不上来为什么。其实整个题材都让我恶心 *shrug
Bravo
先知道的这个事件，然后意外知道了这个音乐剧，没想到这个音乐剧就是讲那个事件的。
很感动！开始感觉可能有点闹腾，而且因为每个演员都担任了好几个角色，会有点错位的诧异感。不过最后那种厚重感和爱的传递的正能量还是传达到了，尤其是从那些人起飞离开后开始，那种怅然若失，挺戳人的。
还蛮喜欢结尾，Nancy是通过自己获得了第一次高潮而非Leo
疫情解封后的百老汇音乐剧+911 20周年纪念让这部作品天然意义非凡，相比《汉密尔顿》讲述美国国父背后的男人的丰功伟绩，《来自远方》展现了加拿大纽芬兰岛民的力量与善意，it's a celebration of humanity，这是对普通人的赞歌。
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