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)
感情表达很细腻，也有跟着落泪。不过好像只是在表达，意义并不深刻。结尾也有点突然结束，人物形象立的不是很饱满。（然后想想没有孩子应该不会这么愁吧，林嘉欣还是好美好美）
她把女儿带到了美国，却要责怪她拥有了美国人的思维，真是可笑
要负担起一个生命的责任，还要面对自身的恐惧、疲倦、自我怀疑，真的好重好重。
背景和故事内容相似，却比瀑布流畅太多了。结尾仓促了些。
好看。覺得劇本和表演都非常扎實得讓人珍貴，也很難得。作為幾乎同齡人，看到反叛心理的姐姐真的很有帶入感。03年的氣息撲面而來。最喜歡的細節是爸爸在樓梯間哭時手上拿著的那個鑰匙扣
看到这里我很想问大女儿，那你做好了吗？你做好你的部分了吗？
刻意设计的情节与台词还是有点多，最后困局的解决也显得过于简单，但不妨碍整体情感表达的真诚质朴。在疫情癌症阶级跌落三重阴云笼罩下濒临分崩离析的家庭，虽然成员们坚信都深爱着其他人，也都愿意为此付出努力，但这种努力换来的却是愈加激烈的争吵与怨恨。美国女孩说的不只是姐姐妹妹，更说的是亲身体验梦境破碎跌回人间的母亲，她们都想成为美国原野上的马，最终却要接受自己不过是台湾铁笼中的鸟这一残酷现实。很私人很具有历史感的文本，却因为当下的covid疫情具有了一种现实感，又因为这种家人间爱恨交织的复杂情感具有了普世性。
对东方情感的粗暴理解让人看得十分压抑，为了矛盾而矛盾，为了和解儿和解，对于人在困顿中的自我挣扎和寻求自洽的本能没有深入的体察和温情的观照。感到全程笼罩在创作者青春期式的任性抱怨中难得解脱。
最喜欢马场那场戏 哭的心疼
“我不会有一个小孩。”可事实是我已经是两个人的小孩、在没有找到另一条可走的路之前、我接受这个事实。
很好理解的小故事，说不出哪里好，但看完的确会被感动。
真的太一般了 我一个会轻易被母女煽情打动的人都一脸懵逼 在Chicago-NYC飞机上看的
孩子又那么不懂事顶嘴叛逆。弥漫火药味，动不动就爆炸。
有些像是日系韩系的亲情剧。家庭内亲情和矛盾，都表现得还不错。 4星推荐
女儿芳婷最恨母亲之处，不是母亲一厢情愿地把还在进行文化认同阶段的她带到美国，而后又不由分说地被现实击败，把她拽回母语之地任由适应，而是母亲不肯好好活着，母亲就要死了，恨一个人总比爱一个人容易。
林嘉欣还是那么美，虽然芳仪设定性格不太好，但我还蛮喜欢她慢吞吞的样子
整天想着死，去死啊！你这样跟妈妈说话的吗？
一個國中女孩，要怎麼想得透這些事情？儘管多出十年、二十年的歲月，我們可能也仍持續在自我身份認同、親子關係、對未知的寄望裡迷路。
本片中心思想：不要生小孩,小孩会带来不幸。
情绪上编排的其实有些无厘头，没有重点，算是比较平实的讲出一些家长里短。具有很典型的女导演剧本风格。和赵婷的差距就在这里。
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