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)
四海为家看星河落在荒漠，或者贷款买房在后院烧烤，生活有无数的可能性，我们能作出的选择却那么少。
4.对新自由的欲望的追求
由衷感叹，独立勇敢又坚贞的硬核女性，本应拥有幸福啊，但好像只有漫无边际的孤独。
好人网-02/27/21 at AMC Garden State 16
4-4.5，多给麦克多蒙德一星。「Home is just a word, or is it something you carry within you.」开头这句台词可能已经代表了全部。很奇妙地，我想到的是最近美国的辞职潮、三和大神、字节的CQC以及最近几年投资颇多的「零工经济」方向。当然这类问题可能很难得出什么「答案」甚至没有答案，但审视本身，可能也有存在的价值。
★★★★★ 每一秒都太喜欢了。背负着各自的故事与伤痛、脆弱又坚强的人们一个个相遇又分别的故事。年纪越大越能明白这样的道理。see you down the road是最好的迎接与道别。
很喜欢这样的质感，接近纪录片的真诚。感谢导演，给了我宁静的片刻。
四海为家看星河落在荒漠，或者贷款买房在后院烧烤，生活有无数的可能性，我们能作出的选择却那么少。
EP.1-7 《无限列车》
蛮令人唏嘘的。就，年轻人的嬉皮生活还容易加浪漫化滤镜，对中老年人来说觉得太苦了。老年还能乐观忍受这种生活的人，是真的生命力顽强。（窝一个奔四的人看了都觉得受不了 感觉老年如果没有钱 就是排气管一堵的事儿/而有钱的话 根本不想在意是否需要活到老年）
无依之地，吾心为家——
對我而言單純欣賞女主角的演技，以及位於美國大自然絢麗的風光，單憑劇情而言難以對本片產生共情，我認為筆者的想法是割裂的，既想反映這個生活模式，卻放置他們在背景，詩意鏡頭下的劇情空洞無物，情感宣洩不痛不癢
内敛而忧伤。配上宁静忧郁的音乐，想着如果相同的故事也在中国西部上演。。。
独立女性的公路片。天人合一。远离人群，却又无法脱离。
期望过高，中国房车是富人的游戏，美国房车是穷人的家
TIFF // Fern是当代资本主义社会的被束缚的侠女。
失业了怎么办？失去家庭了怎么办？还未老焦虑今后的人生怎么办？观影感受情绪起伏：担忧-暖意-悲哀-释然，资本与全球化带来的难题不是一个国家的问题，现实很裸露很残酷，大环境扑来了，能怎么办，只能靠人自我的强大生存意识继续活下去。I‘m just houseless，not homeless. 心即家，家在心，如果守不住房子，那么守住家，踏路而上，直至生命最后一刻。致渺小而伟大的自己。
印象最深的就是那句，如果你要了解当地的生活，就去AA。
无依，可以是无以依靠，也可以是无需依靠，希望大家都能找到适合自己的依靠方式。
也是一段无法与过去和解，停留在回忆里的破碎的心的故事，Fern是那么孤独而坚强，试图通过踏上公路努力继续前进，却始终只是在原地打转
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