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)
我大概就是不喜欢musical period
天才拍天才了救命
在30岁生日前夕看这片再适合不过了！临近三十岁仍旧碌碌无为的我，是否也该努力创作，实现梦想呢？用歌唱出生活，满注活力，情真动听。看来我还是不适合看这种纯歌舞片，剧情平淡到爆炸，丝毫看不到人物的闪光点和动人之处，若非加菲灵气可爱的演绎，这片的看点会大打折扣。Alexandra Shipp美到360°无死角！！！快看完才知道原来Jonathan Larson便是大名鼎鼎的《吉屋出租》创作者，看完才知道导演原来是林漫威！全程没认出Vanessa Hudgens。
粉丝向作品，表演刻意，音乐随意，缺乏亮点，强行催泪。
乔纳森也是幸运的，有流星划过夜空的绚烂。
林漫威的自我投射过剩。。唱段拍得挺动听的，但离动人有好远距离，有那么多情绪充沛的时刻却至于看完一遍后没有任何一段留下印象
"you start writing the next one, and after you finish that one, you start on the next, and on and on, that's what it is to be a writer."
赢了表演，输了情感。歌舞编排强是强，大多时间都是舞台与现实来回转换的优秀演出。 但本片跟“下限高，上限低”的万金油作品有什么实质差别吗？当然没差别，故事模板，影像表达，又亦是情绪渲染都被主创方和资本彻底锁死。 也基本跟电影里的人物所说，“引人入胜，却难以让观众跟随故事的情感主线，太多细节让我们分心，也同样难以产生共鸣。” 所以第三幕的高潮与其说是佳章倒不如说是正常发挥，毕竟［倒数时刻］本就未真正存在过，一部精彩却又扁平无奇的传记片。
一个美好的人生，也许有点悲惨，但确是美好的，过自己想过的人生。
"you start writing the next one, and after you finish that one, you start on the next, and on and on, that's what it is to be a writer."
喜欢迈克那条线
影片高开低走旋律亦然，故事处理着实乏味。
稍微有点触动的是中间分手一段，争吵及关系的崩塌和后来以此改编成的演出唱段交叉呈现，情境基调的反差高效带出主题性。至于其他和整体……听听歌就好了。
导演居然是林聚聚 震惊一秒 导演很聪明没有选择Jon更加戏剧性的作品rent 而是选择了他并不出名的tick,tick...boom 这部他从毫无名气到被业内认可 最终或许是前作的失败铸就了他真正的成功 很喜欢导演用舞台剧当作内心独白 穿插在Jon的人生画面里 虽然中间有些部分过度煽情持中立态度 但通过这部电影 让我们稍稍了解了一下这位耀眼的天才 愿Jon在天堂继续他下一部 下下部 下下下部作品 他的才华终究会被更多的人看到 waiting for your next one
乔纳森是不幸的，英年早逝。
非音乐剧粉真的很难感受其中的热爱，现实与虚构的反复横跳令人迷惑，在华丽画面和欢脱的舞蹈之下却没有对人物的深思。
以为是故事，其实是哲学，以为是哲学，其实是求索以为是求索，其实是人生指南
从开场便知这是这是一出无解悲剧，从各个方面都沉湎所谓梦的光芒里。
加菲表演还是很不错的，但是片子容易让人看不进去，尤其是前半部分。Vanessa声音真好听。
命运啊、时间啊、生命的尽头啊…这一切都是难以捉摸又突然地降临。无法抵抗又无可奈何。
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