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)
没有最绝望的时候，绝处能逢生。
16-53 美国《斯图神父》
完成度非常高的類型片！有感動有歡笑，有兩代間的價值觀衝突。更值得稱讚的是，電影本身並沒有走一個政治正確路線，沒有純粹的去趕時髦，只是不偏不倚的站在中間，傳達最純粹簡單的主題。演員們都很討喜，胖艾美瘦下來後臉常常看起來像潘妮洛普克魯茲？？？
主角演技还是在线的，真人真事，肯定故事是完整的，就是感觉还差点什么
58 编剧的台词功力真的很不错 很多都写得很好
确实，对于我这种无宗教、无神论者，没办法共情这部片。
探险历程很平淡，就平铺直叙，最后一直在营地呆着，不够精彩
谁会拒绝周末晚上看一本最新的chickflick呢~
有点无聊 劣质励志 那种人在遭遇奇迹之后会吓到 会怀疑 变或不变会反映在他之后的样子 还是满口脏话 顺嘴得不得了 那就是没变 编剧怕观众太智障 就把自己变成智障 写成了他外在没变的剧情 太扯了
（二星半与三星之间）
走过山川河流，见过万里冰封，却都不及你来得动人心魄。
本来是给四星的，但少了一个重要环节的揭露，弟弟究竟是怎么死的，变成了最大的疑点。一个神父的养成，也有足够的内容来研究他的心理状态及他一家的关系处理。
挺好的，起码很真实！！由于船长原因导致错失救援部分刻画的很好。
当今校园喜剧特色就是一定要有lgbt元素一定要和黑人谈恋爱
一直都不是马粉，看这部电影时从开始对他讨厌到后面改头换面般的讨喜，也证明了演员的实力，至于是否相信里面神迹和救赎都是很个人的，我只知道会看这部电影也是冥冥中对处于当下迷惘的自己送的一碗鸡汤…
Religion may be a fantasy, but it can instill strength, courage, and hope into human beings.
这一段真是让人笑哭了。
根据真实人物故事改编。
最后的煽情还算合格，前边人物的描写刻画太简单，导演叙事能力还是有欠缺。
（二星半与三星之间）
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