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　　《美人图》说的是朝鲜史上有名的女扮男装天才画家申润福的故事。　　申润福（金敏善 饰）的父亲将家族的兴旺寄予这个可怜的女孩，隐藏其女儿身，改以男儿身打扮亮相，跟随着当地有的画家金洪道（金英浩 饰）学习，苦学画技，以卖画给地主们维持生计。性格粗野的姜武（金南吉 饰）是市井青铜镜商人，一次偶然中发现了申润福的女人身份，与她相爱，并使润福认识到身为女人如命运般的爱情。但申润福的老师金洪道与徒弟之间也有一种奇妙的感情，他不容许润福背叛自己，千方百计阻止润福和姜武。而名妓雪花（秋瓷炫 饰）则深爱着金洪道。四个人将会走向何处？申润福和姜武能守护住自己的爱情吗？申润福的女子身份会被揭露吗？最终她是否能改变自己的一生，成为朝鲜知名画家？

　　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)

高丽末年，亲卫军“健龙卫”对高丽王（朱镇模 饰）忠心耿耿，誓死保卫王的安全，其首领洪麟（赵仁成 饰）是王的宠臣，两个相伴多年，关系甚为亲密。远嫁而来的蒙古宝丽公主（宋智孝 饰）倍受冷落，多年来无一子嗣。元朝以高丽国后继无人为由，企图另立新王，把现在的高丽王赶下王位。无奈之下，王只能让自己宠爱的臣子和自己名存实亡的王妃行房，期望王妃怀孕生子，以求让元朝再无易帝的借口。洪麟与王妃初识男欢女爱之欢娱，竟暗生情愫，背着王多次偷偷幽会。王感觉到了洪麟的变化，但还是试图使两人的关系回到过去，可是当他亲眼目睹了王妃和洪麟的偷情之后，盛怒之下对洪麟施行宫刑，自此，三人关系陷入了不可挽回的境地。