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)
好羡慕 Caleb 有 Dara 这样的 partner in crime
美国青春甜水艾滋小片片，戳爷太像寡姐了，感觉黑寡妇在强吻三哥
戳爷好甜，表演好松弛，就是不知道他那么爱霉霉为啥会在片中黑她两次😂虚惊一场真的是人生幸事。等待的时光不要摆烂，要悄悄积蓄力量。
评价是不如爱你西蒙，我肤浅我喜欢看happy ending
中规中矩的🌈青春片，色调很舒服。为戳希文的可爱加一星～
纯粹为了看troye。如果拍成20分钟的短片其实会更好……
然后，配乐都酷酷，大卫鲍伊很少出现在青春电影了。加一星。
马卡龙色调加戳爷的美颜，绝！
是段很真诚的讲述
我之前一直觉得戳爷和甜茶长得挺像，都是一种类型的少年感。长到现在觉得戳爷颜值还是更高一些，甜茶只在cmbyn里是天花板。感觉像在看另一版本题材不同的爱你西蒙，但没后者好看，剧情松松散散的。主要其实还是讲一个gay teenager的青春一夏。
故事没有预期得精彩，但电影风格是真的和戳爷配一脸啊！印度小哥也帅！
喜欢超市狂欢 也喜欢双人自行车悠哉悠哉 精准捕捉恋爱里的小心思 无数次焦急的怕自己等不到
完全出乎意料，没想到竟然不烂。就是青少年在夏天遇到的一些破事，摔倒了然后爬起来了，不及《我世界的中心》有深度但更简单清新一点
其实挺无聊的。除了Troye，其他演员就不能找好看点的吗？片尾那些图，放电影的花絮图不好吗？把陈年旧图都拿出来了。最后也没说得没得嘛，我还以为我一直被剧透得了。风景好像85年盛夏
2X speed finish. We hurt those who love us & love those who hurt us
比想象中的好很多，很工整的一部青春片。主旨很简单，珍惜身边真正关心你的家人、朋友，对那些不珍视你的人就let them go，不值得为他们浪费眼泪。Troye的演技竟然还不错，好几幕湿润眼眶的情绪都恰到好处。虽然是他的个人秀，但几个配角写的也有趣，甚至值得explore。Ellen奶奶的表演永远那么好哭。P.S 感谢弯弯字幕组地译制～
两星给戳爷。电影本身甚至比《爱你西蒙》更缺乏说服力，更糟糕的是电影是从straight people's view出发，戳爷和他的约会对象不会在独处那么多次后才接吻的！ 不过“三个月”这个议题是很不错的，从可能感染到尘埃落定需要三个月的时间，暴露者本人在这三个月内要承受的恐惧和绝望是无法形容的，这个在电影中还是有一定程度展现。所以真的非常羡慕美国有这样的互助小组的存在。（另外，美国人真的这么不爱干净吗？！甜甜圈撒一床，从来不脱鞋上床。在海水里泡过的穿了很久的脏鞋子不会把整个壁橱熏臭吗
life is all of shit
青春喜剧的风格却包含着伤痛文学的痛点，那些年少的岁月似乎我们经常会感觉到所有人都离开了我，然后又忽然间发现，哦，也有很多人爱我。画面很治愈，troye很可爱。
很无聊也很刻板，丰富的色彩与其说有起到缓和气氛和营造青春洋溢的感觉，还不如说电影本身就不存在关于“等待结果”的紧张气氛，而青春的设定也是虚假得很，一个背着书包却只用去小卖部打工的学生。“甜蜜的爱情”也没有很甜，剧情也是无聊和刻板到极致了。只能说电影的色彩确实很养眼，也是唯一能够感觉到“青春活力”和“爱情甜蜜”的地方了吧。
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