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)
有地方浓郁色彩这一点很不错，潮汕在日常有听过有很重性别不平等存在，看到评论区某条热评发现影片还是粉饰得太好。另影片里拿非裔和胖女孩开玩笑真的很冒犯
“外来媳妇本地郎”模式，笑料来自文化差异、现代与传统的碰撞。地域性的集中展示难免有些刻意及猎奇性，不过也充满了特有的生活烟火味。地域创作不易，加一星鼓励。“爸”“妈”之后，接下来是谁？期待下。。。
是部好电影 超出我的预期
片子看完还是很欣慰，结局是圆满的，不过还没有刻意的煽动感情的俗套镜头。
3.5星，部分片段像mv。敬每一个母亲和爱情。
很多点巧妙地连起来了，很喜欢，有点像爱情神话。
汕头风光宣传片，潮汕地区风俗科普片，剧情烂俗，表演矫揉造作（龅牙姨除外），就一般爆米花水平，高分都是潮汕人打出来的？
很像，女主角也和她很像，真好。
本来被前几年的潮汕电影弄得没有信心了，知道这部要上映，看了片名就觉得又是刷情怀的烂片。今晚偶然看了点片段后看了全片，意外地很不错，有诚意的片子。平时看片评分要求比较高，这片子，给五星了。
所以想表达什么？婆婆接受了外地儿媳，接受了离过婚的儿媳，然后呢？歌颂什么，传递什么？
确实是很真实的潮汕文化了，感觉现在越来越多潮汕小孩都不愿再传承这样的思想，希望所有潮汕父母都能看见爱并放下偏见
"欢迎潮汕话加入2022乡村爱情故事电影大赛"...某种程度上算在深潮汕人特供片吧...各种南山镜头...回家房间那段王家卫差点要叫律师了...机场飞机在车窗倒影也很有技巧..."仿佛看到了中国电影的希望"...
三星半。这样的本土电影太温暖了，妈妈去机场留住了儿媳妇我居然看哭了⊙﹏⊙。虽然有不足之处但是的确很温暖啊。潮汕妈妈好可爱。插曲也超有感觉超好听。
妈妈太自然了，显得其他人演技略拉，结尾的转折太过轻易突兀。但是潮汕人民太好玩了哈哈哈哈。
如果全部是群众演员的话，演技确实比专业演员好一点
传统与现代，突破与规矩，文明与风俗，最后都在亲情中融为了一体。电影冲突的呈现与表达也很高级。
7.5分。很久没看到这么认真探讨代际问题的院线电影了。“妈妈”的表演撑起全片。结尾那句“妈妈是不是很没用啊”，一下子把整部片的意蕴提上去了。
虽然它有这样那样的问题，但放之于浮躁的国产电影创作环境来讲，他又是如此真诚和大方的。这样的创作思路，值得被看见，也值得被更好的开发和挖掘。
还好是在电视上看而不是电影院，充满偏见思维，粗暴语言，生硬剧情，拖沓镜头。再多拍几部，看还有几个“外省”愿意嫁过来。
泽凯妈对“外省再婚女”珊珊的抵触，似乎是潮汕人浓烈的宗族与本地意识的集中外化。语言的阻塞，制造心灵的隔膜。城市对小镇的同化，外语对方言的遗忘，又现几分文化忧患。而其本质，无非是封闭与自洽的空间生态，在面向无法掌控世界的极端畏惧与不安全感。而最终的和解，多少沾上些“延续香火”的妥协。
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