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)
5分。看完还挺复杂的，喜欢“蜂巢”这个概念，也喜欢影像，但对于影片整体却喜欢不起来。
近期恐怖片还剩《南巫》没看，看完温导作品后意外觉得本作整体还完整些。可惜表达主题上主次乱斗，作为增味剂的平权喧宾夺主，恐怖的部分细品也少些味道。食之无味，弃之可惜，确是道无特色的普通小菜。
想到当年写Pruitt-Igoe的论文，真是一个never-ending loop
居然这么快就出分啦，Owen Wilson很适合这种失意但真诚的角色，Lopez很适合大明星的角色。因为开幕式搞了peacock prime，也算回本了吧。
虽然不相信真实娱乐圈top级别里有这种人美心善的白莲花但还是祝兜兜转转和大本重修旧好的JLo能够be beautiful and happy ever after.
合格的romcom, long time no see!
故弄玄虚，故事性太弱；种族议题太刻意，把怨灵拍成了超英
暴力形式能真的实现BLM吗？捂住耳朵看恐怖指数为1星
还能看，两位老将，尤其女生保养得太好啦吧，男二要比她小二十多岁啊看不出来。女主的经纪人这位英国喜剧男星，减肥了不太好玩了嘿嘿
这个爱情故事没有吸引到我……两个50多岁的大龄中年爱情故事并不是那么美好。
至少看着轻松惬意心不累。JLO真是不老神话。美利坚现代网络社交版诺丁山影子。但威尔逊显然没有休格兰特的儒雅劲头。移动媒体的短视频，配角们性向梗，大明星女主最后追爱男主找回幸福，二十年间这世界被互联网，女权主义，政治正确改变了很多。
美国萧亚轩在演唱会直播婚礼时突然发现未婚夫出轨，然后甩了对方，并在观众席随机挑选了一个路人原地结婚了…好看！很俗套的那种好看～令人嘴角上扬！
ZZ意味过于明显，完全掩盖了恐怖氛围，挺无聊的就。要是只是想表达立场可以直接拍宣传片，别糟蹋恐怖片题材
预告片积攒的期待值前十分钟被耗完。
你在现实里锁喉 我在电影里割喉
《诺丁山》拉丁风情版，JLO倒是真的不显老，还有机会舞台表演舞蹈和献唱很多首歌曲，简直是个人才艺表演秀。要是粉丝都能在台下举个Marry Me的牌子就被明星答应结婚就好了。
像MV串烧，男主人设跟老头子似的。时代变了，jennifer lopez这身材搁现在就一梨形大妈，每一个穿紧身衣的舞台都令我尴尬。
这种就甜甜甜的戏，无脑看就对啦…我也知道它俗套，但我现在的心情，确实是需要这样的一个甜饼。两位也是好久不见了…
情人节档期特供的美国歌星版“诺丁山”，浪漫喜剧嘛就不要计较合理与否，其实两位中年人煲电话粥和娃娃们玩耍度假屋约会音乐剧BGM滚床单还是蛮温情的，音乐好听主演和配角（尤其银人姐姐）可爱，JLO戏里戏外都是行走的当代浪漫喜剧（大本还赶着情人节剪了On My Wat的MV哈哈哈
都2022年了，為什麼還有人要講先婚後愛，為什麼還有人要看先婚後愛？如果郭敬明翻拍《諾丁山》的話，差不多就是這樣，看不見愛情，只有霸總與傻白甜性轉標籤，繼續著愛情片套路，再填塞換裝秀和Drama，可惜，又不夠美娛圈真實的Drama那麼刺激。
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