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)
It’s hard to be left behind
身怀绝症之人要如何延续自己的身体机能、记忆以及情感，要如何学会告别，这部电影给出了一份答案。在冷感科幻的氛围里，平静温柔地讲述了男主做出最终决定的这一过程。想起了黑镜中的某一集，只是那是站在逝去亲人那一方的角度来看待问题的，但感情同样动人。
克隆人真的是解决离别更好的办法吗？我想应该不是。当日你是穷人得选项。
Ali厉害的地方就在于，不会让你在观看影片时单独读到他演技的存在，一切那么柔和，融入在电影和情节里面。
这些年争议很大的一个话题，仁者见仁智者见智，我觉得没有绝对的公平也没有绝对的自私，尊重人性吧
喜欢这种调调，缓缓叙事，娓娓道来，表面溪流入场，里面暗潮涌动，纠结与挣扎之后，唯有爱，让一切和解，技术的价值判断在善与恶之间，最终的解决方案，还是爱，虽然主旨俗套，但表演不俗，拍摄不俗，音乐不俗，观感自然不俗。
虽然科幻得很玄幻，但是平实的叙述，精湛的演技，冲淡了基本上不可能的科技成就，很感人。
还可以，调调调的很准，各位大神表演也很到位！
Moses Sumney + Frank Ocean Excellence
克隆技术可以复制肉体甚至记忆，但人类灵魂深处的东西却无法被替代，科幻的外衣下缓缓讲述着主题俗套内核却清新的爱情小品，阿里的表演扎实且细致入微。
这真的是一个人可以为另外一个人做出的最大牺牲了。
黑镜既视感。摄影，剪辑，光影，设计，都太对我胃口了。
男主真勇士，同作为雄性生物自愧不如。如果是我，我特么好容易把你搞到手，有了事业有了娃，一起经历了酸甜苦辣，现在却要让一个和我一模一样的臭老头来坐享其成？想都别想，我要死也要死在女人的怀里，葬礼上都给我使劲哭！
——2022.4.1 愚人节
不理解让克隆人代替自己生活，不管初心是什么，伴侣/家人需要知道真相。所以看不太下去。
克隆人的思路和同样是Apple TV+出品的《基地》如出一辙，个人觉得本片被低估了
构思好，节奏慢，而且看上去有点故意慢。。。
抛开科幻的成分，单从人要面对生离死别时的不安与不舍，足以发人深省并为之动容。至少，向死而生是应该提好做好的自我心理准备。意义大于故事本身，后韵绵长值得加分。
你不是你的记忆，你不是你的情绪，你也不是你所陷入的关系。当你用这些塑造了你的认知，你就已经树立了一座高墙，断然拒绝了其他的可能性，变得狭隘，因此痛苦
抛开科幻的成分，单从人要面对生离死别时的不安与不舍，足以发人深省并为之动容。至少，向死而生是应该提好做好的自我心理准备。意义大于故事本身，后韵绵长值得加分。
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