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)
每一个个体意志，在群体意志面前，都显得如此渺小
人美心善的女主和早发痴呆的宅男之间也挺温柔的。还是没看完。紧跟时事。
这是一部以疫情为背景的飞越疯人院的故事片，情节处理细节，背景音乐和人物动态相得益彰，以小见大。女主帮男主，男主帮女主，共救患者，最后逃离医院，却被抓回。
近景的压迫感和不断令人窒息的室内戏 其困境就如同病毒般无声无息 电影的片名不该叫援助 应该是声嘶力竭到无处安放的病人求救
只有某地喜欢宏大叙事，灾难面前只有弱小又顽强的个体
这是所看第一部以新冠为背景的电影。
Jodie Comer是个好演员，比国内的片子更能打动人
疫情下每个国家的运行方式都是一样的，为了阶级利益，关于生命的一切已经不再重要，但还好偶尔也会有好人在。噢对了，至少一些国家能把这些拍出来，而另一些国家连拍都不行
那一句What if一旦落在自己身上
被遗忘的他们，or被选择性抛弃（战略性放弃？）的疗养院，我们习惯了feel sorry for them unlucky people，但却没有付诸行动。
Jodie Comer真是好演员呐，如果不是表姐球迷就好了😁
啾迪的演技太赞了！！！咱就是说，也只有其他国家才敢拍这种片子……Sarah和Tony的对手戏好自然啊，最后Sarah带Tony隔离的剧情还挺让人动容的
一个小护理院面对初期新冠肆虐的无力，难得一部真实展现疫情一线的作品，类似于《索尔之子》近景别虚背景的拍法让中段的long nignt充满窒息感，导演和演员在表现这一段面对新冠病人时，慌乱又细心、无助又努力的矛盾拿捏相当准确。最后一幕跳脱出来没能延续前三分之二的出色，有些可惜。
是我看过这么多电影中，虚焦用得最多也是最好的一部。中间那个长镜头，也看得人揪心。
Jodie comer, 满分！love u forever!
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“从什么时候起，我们的生命不再平等了？”（看完不禁去xx医生改分，差不多题材或者主题有人在讲故事，以小见大，有人渲染过多，野心太大
看到Jodie饰演的护工在照顾了一夜的感染新冠病人之后痛哭的时候
朱迪演的太好 那些挣扎的眼神看的人揪心 也很开心她没有因为走红而远走好莱坞拒绝这样题材的电影 疫情之下那些最弱势最没有话语权的群体被更加边缘化 得不到救助得不到重视 他们是被遗忘的人群 这样的电影不足以道足万一 却意义非凡 感叹自己的幸运 受到的影响远没有一线的工作人员那么惨重 可是生活永远在继续
口音英语听着挺亲切就是有点费劲。
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