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)
小皮匠在皮匠摊上喝咖啡吃蛋糕聊女人，居然不显得突兀。有意思。
可太好看了！嗲得嘞，灵得嘞！虽然浮于表面，可这皮相真是美啊！观众看得开心，演员演得开心，导演拍得也开心！
国内拍出这样的爱情片很新奇，但说了归齐不过是"腔调"二字，因此这样的故事大概只能接上海的地气，只有在上海，修皮鞋的老头边磨豆子边飚英文才不显得奇怪//老乌让我想起了甜蜜蜜里的姑妈
填补了华语电影多处的空白：地域/方言（南方&吴语）电影，城市中年爱情，不俗套的台词片，有几处恍惚看到了侯麦，估计还是太久没看到灵的华语电影了
跟我喜欢还潮的歌一样，知道有点缝合怪的意思，但就是好听好看呀。
年度真香！感觉二十年后会成为甲方乙方一样的经典。BGM临街杂货店咖啡馆《红拂夜奔》各种梗好评！紫发马伊琍有点像千fa！白老师还真的有点魅力！&导演太聪明了，竟然是91年的！最后很多泪点真的是中年人的泪点（。）
影片设计充满了巧思，很多隐喻，双关和有趣的细节。
我可太喜欢倪虹洁了，尤其是说上海话的倪虹洁，又魅又迷人
很适合找个假期约三五好友窝在家里一起看 最大的败笔大概就是小爱豆吧
片子挺好的，节奏紧凑台词好笑。但是不要再发给我"为什么你们不能多拍点这样的文艺片"这样的话了，这真的是一部挺成功的商业喜剧，不是拍几个文艺中年的故事就是文艺片了……
把中年、小生活、上海的好，全都甜甜黏黏的说出来了。
这部电影是我今年看过的最开心幽默的喜剧，全片用上海方言呈现当今上海女性的爱情价值观可以说非常准确和真实，这可能和导演是一位女性有很大的关系，电影的幽默来自于人物之间的对话，沪味的絮叨对我这个上海出生的人来说不但亲切也确实真实，而片中所有的人都有精彩的对话使故事生动流畅，片中还有很多英文流行音乐的加入让这个故事很国际化，甚至有了爱乐之城的欢乐，爱情神话真的很神奇！
突然就想起十多年前，细伢子们聚在我家一起看《2001太空漫游》，有人睡得很香。
没写了个啥事儿 但是从第一场戏好看到最后一场戏。音乐也好
当然相信它自有受众，但确实不是我。
其实，只要是成熟的人的爱情，都有动人的力量，不分老年人，中年人还是年轻人。
没有爱情也没有神话，只有一群有钱有闲的上海中年男/女人的浪漫生活。音乐强加分也强减分，在生活与艺术之间来回横跳。
段子集合很好笑，在这届年轻人眼里人到中年和工作就是生活之重了，写出了一个sitcom版本的理想梧桐区
人们正是因为喜欢神话才向往爱情，可惜真实世界的爱情里很难存在神话。奢侈的东西被标榜以平价，平民消费观贯穿在这群隐形富豪，这种对观众亲民的爱情真是个神话！https://movie.douban.com/review/14107197/
不能欺负woody allen不能发话随便一部叨逼叨逼都说像woody allen吧，女性发声的编导片为什么找个男主演非常奇怪
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