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)
前面一整套拳打的都不错，这个结尾也未免太超现实主义了吧。
取景和镜头都极具美感，心魔的艺术化表现新颖而巧妙，你能想到的一切套路这部电影都不会出现，就是前1小时节奏可以再抓一抓，几个男性角色略单薄。裂开的手太经典，看完冲动点了鸡爪外卖。
空镜什么都挺美的，一到最后就无力收尾，希望nope别走这个路线
我的理解是，不管他们是什么职业什么性格，都是同根生，本质上是一样的
男人看着似乎各有不同，仔细看看其实都是一张面孔，男权社会代代相传，绵延不绝，只有主谋与帮凶
别看，求求大家.太二臂了这片，真的无语.今年最无语的片子.直男导演就别拍这种题材了，真的无语了.
形式做到极致 但符号化太过于明显 直接喂 最后这个套娃真的….一丝丝不适
大抵是真的和加兰无缘。机械姬到湮灭再到男人，空有概念并不是致命点。概念先行的片子有不少我都很喜欢，但实在是在视听，情感甚至是主题上都造成的很差。一丁点才华都没有说的就是这种导演。
又是一个意境惊悚片。前面节奏很慢，片尾才看到那几个cult镜头，我这个百年重口味的人都觉得挺带劲了。符合时下热门社会题材。
结尾的几个镜头，恶男不断孕育新的恶男，恶生恶，我要吐了。
伊甸园的禁果，生育的解构，男性视角的透析。极度的厌男，一绝的视效。但确实有些偏颇与生硬。
开头是搞笑的，而且景色拍得很好，就是节奏很慢。有一块星空很美，但很假，就有点怪。
我可以为你学着扮演任何角色，只是为了得到你的爱！结果吓到你伤害了自己
上次看x的时候看到了这个预告片有点不明所以…看完之后的感想是：如果去电影院看一定会睡着，然后在后半段被吓醒。
独居的恐惧，被暴露狂跟踪的恐惧，被强奸的恐惧，被婚姻束缚的恐惧，被随意批判的恐惧，生育的恐惧…这么理解就还挺吓人的
非常明白导演想表达什么。身为女性，就是原罪，无论如何，都会被捏碎。但是拍的过于奇特，风景真的特别美，这么美的地方确实毒瘤应该都该消失🫠
【3.5】A24出品的又一部恐怖片
从家庭到社会，从政府到宗教，女性找不到任何出路。一切都如此理所当然，像是人类诞生伊始就注定的恶果，或者是，就像是自然的一部分。所以女性的恐惧，也不得不因此草木皆兵。
男性导演拍恐男片总给人一种略显刻意的违和感
有种在双年展的小黑屋里看当代作品的观感……我的理解是女主ptsd的各个阶段？片头是小写白色的men，片尾则是大写血红的MEN，精神分裂般地控诉性别压迫。蒲公英是什么，是看似无拘无束却注定飘摇的反抗精神。
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