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)
Looking for someone who can see me for who I am 熟悉的美式风格 适合放松
居然是在Vancouver和Burnaby拍的
3.5啦 虽然是cliche，却也轻轻松松的圣诞romcom
同样是Christmas cliché，比隔壁的撞号姐妹片还是好很多的。欧阳万成有毒哦，他怎么跟谁都好有cp感！awwwwwww
就还是对华裔有刻板印象…但是有些台词确实不错。恭喜欧阳有主演的影视作品。
跟着 Youtube 的 reaction 视频看完了。
圣诞季一到就想看这种甜到齁的剧。给我往死里加糖！我自己配胰岛素
從頭到尾都是濃濃的「算法電影」的味道，甚是平庸了無新意，直接搬了《真愛至上》的經典橋段，但沒有很好的運用，片名也起得夠水的。
damn！我居然在最后模仿Love Actually桥段那里牛内了…… 在这之前我都觉得很一般，也不是很喜欢两位主演（主要是一个太夸张一个太呆板，好吧呆板也算符合这个人物吧）。也不能说喜欢，还是节日氛围和“真爱至上”起了大作用。
做针对男生的蜡烛还真是个好商机；另外，怎么会有人不喜欢真爱至上？！
这部剧情太脱离现实了，我不相信！
挺好看的，比较温馨浪漫，男主挺可爱的。轻松的剧。
this just reminded me of the reasons why i hate mass produced streaming platform xmas/vday self-referencing rom coms
满分满分！！ 影名完美融梗Love actually和Die Hard，Jing Yang的演技太出彩， 每个人物都很丰满。太羡慕Lin family 了
Die hard is a Christmas movie period
喜欢女主，很漂亮。 喜欢影片营造出来的包容轻松的氛围，男主一家对女主的喜欢和包容，女主上司对女主的包容。 音乐也挺好。 男主性格很好，虽然外貌不帅，但有自己的魅力。
就问编剧和导演你们自己相信这样的爱情吗？就问演员们你们演着不觉得恶心吗？本来要探讨的现代人恋爱观是挺好的，用了个这么扭曲这么极端这么低级的方式表现出来，求婚那段实属是要吐了。救命啊真就是给普信男增加了莫名的自信。
三星半，本来想打三星的，但是致敬真爱至上的桥段很感人，虽然不太能够合理化他们最终在一起的happy ending。为了Nina多加一星啦！
记得标记想看的时候还没有评分，大概是加入豆瓣十年来第一次不带着先入为主的预期轻轻松松欣赏一部电影。仍然愿意给个高分。两个主角都比较饱满，揭示了互联网时代慢慢品尝爱、领悟爱的真谛的道理，还致敬了我最爱的真爱至上。
就还是对华裔有刻板印象…但是有些台词确实不错。恭喜欧阳有主演的影视作品。
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