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)
祝贺赵婷。讲点电影外的，那些人争执的国籍或者自豪感什么的，不过是自卑+民粹。
“谁此时没有房子，就不必建造，谁此时孤独，就永远孤独。”路上的那种孤寂感想起了里尔克这句诗以及亚历山大-佩恩的《内布拉斯加》。
“to the ones who had to depart” 三杯上马去
以纪录片的呈现为外套，其核心仍是主流片女主的情感线——流浪疗愈，渴望家庭，专情配偶。跟同名非虚构小说不是一回事情，但看得出华人导演很希望融入美国社会。
“Dedicated to the ones who had to depart.See you down the road."
进可勇闯天涯，退可壁炉开趴，还是北美大平原的水土养人啊。
赵婷延续了《骑士》里的那种细腻和挣扎，但更加成熟和精准的表现了人物内心的活动，观众能够清晰的感受片中人物最私人化的感受，片中那种迷茫以及过一天是一天的无奈，全被表现得极其真实，这种感觉不像是在看一部电影，而是真正的把观众带进了角色的身体里，就好像自己在经历他们正在经历的东西一样。科恩嫂的表演无话可说的好。
拓荒者与游牧民都是无地可依的人群，前者代表着开拓、积极，后者则是流浪、悲观，就像西部片与这部电影的区别，西部片赞扬的是无畏的英雄，《无依之地》悲悯的是无地的普通人，前者反映了伟大国度的崛起，后者则是美利坚日薄西山的见证。
习惯了流浪，便再也无法停下上路的脚步。整片给我一种忧郁的诗意，在西方式的框架下，却也蕴含着东方式的哲理。上路的勇气总要大过无房的恐惧，而家的意义就在寻找的路上。
如同读一首行吟诗。
每一个在夹缝中生存的灵魂都应该相信无依之地的也有温暖
EP.22-26 《柱众会议》
除去剪辑配乐和细节处理上缺乏想象力等问题外 还有大部分女导演都会有的一个通病：sentimentally melodramatic
像纪录片一般，跟随着科恩嫂试着去理解这些现代游牧民族。不要试图用理性去解构他们的动机，选择游牧本身就充满了浪漫。大自然和同胞的友情是对伤痛最好的治愈。
See you down the road~
5.个人式风景
吟游诗人。see you down the road.
这不是浪漫的公路之歌，而是献给不得不离开的人们。驱逐至边缘，流离失所的状态下，或许才能体会最大的迷惘与自由。
See you down the road
质量不错的，但是评价是不是过誉了？老年《天涯沦落女》➕失落的美国工业之歌。里面的原声音乐有时候挺多余的
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