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)
英国今天网飞第二，好奇点开来看看，很普通的一部流水线作品，但是值得夸奖的是完全没有刻意强调男主亚裔的身份
轻喜剧，开头还蛮可爱的，后面就拖沓和夸张起来了。强行 love actually 结尾。
Nina Dobrev还是那么美😍Darren Barnet已经变成chick flick hot guy专业户了吗哈哈 鬼知道最后致敬love actually那一段我哭得有多惨😭ps.美国人真的11月开始过圣诞🎄实锤 pss.真正的幸福是从爱自己开始的（百说不腻的鸡汤
整个剧情让人迷惑 欺骗得到的爱情 还要女生say sorry…
n…Natalie is freezing…
吸血鬼日记女主已经糊到这种地步了吗，这种烂片都接
男主角出场的时候，当然知道套路，但是镜头扫到他脸上的时候，我还是发出了银铃般的笑声。这片子，开玩笑，一点也不差好嘛，我看得好高兴，很多设计编排竟然神奇的化解了那些俗套带来的感受，而且我不得不说男主对这片子是有功劳的，喜欢。
很适合节日看的romcom。可惜男女主完全没有火花，最后kiss和之前说男主眼睛好看那我不厚道地笑了……哎。
2.5 Mid November is too early for this
道理我都懂，虽然nina这几年老的有些快，虽然男主人是非常好，但是最后nina亲上去的时候，我真的还是没忍住愤怒，两星不能再多了。
连我这么爱看合家欢爆米花电影的人都觉得有的地方真是太cheesy了……
6.6分。非常俗套的爱情喜剧，但整体完成度非常不错，而且我们中国男成男主了，你敢信？就凭这点也该加分。欧阳演得不错，中国爸爸演得更好，杜波夫就一言难尽了，八九年的人咋老成这样了😅
Online dating的圣诞轻喜剧。激情的火焰如果不能被煽旺，最终就会熄灭。
提前看了圣诞电影！哈哈哈哈 真爱一定是灵魂的碰撞而不仅仅是肉体的迷恋！找一个灵魂伴侣对我而言太重要了 所以一直还在期待着♡
不管怎样，意料之外永远是你应该不用担心的事，因为那也许才是你真正想要的
撸猫猫，看happy ending 的圣诞喜剧，best Christmas ever! 🎄
Shout out to my boy 欧阳万成，虽然只是一个轻松圣诞电影，故事没什么亮点，无非是”真爱至上”的亚裔男主版。。。不过连续一礼拜了都霸占澳洲Netflix榜第一还真是争气
运动美男有他特别的讨喜，单纯得和他喜欢的Thoreau一样。比了这种Life in the woods的透明感，丑男的解语、解意、幽默感也有重量，不过是沉淀渣滓。说男人要懂文学，就仿佛赞美一个速冻鸡胸肉丸子，说它看起来有水头有油性。真可爱的男人决不用功要做成才子，他只需人性化地热爱运动、海滩、声浪、增肌和性感。
离谱，明明是女主被假照骗被catfish为什么还要她道歉？？？
标准Netflix圣诞电影，虽然老套，但是我喜欢。
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