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)
3星，乍看是姐妹情深的故事，但其实反映了老美社会阶层的鄙视链。
好故事，但却不是一部好电影。但是片子的诚意在这儿。
同为女性太感同身受了！看哭了！必须五星。强奸犯和拐卖犯必须都得死刑！印度很惨，中国也好不到哪去
如果想获取自己的合法权益，只能通过这种极端的方式的话，那么这个国家没救了。一直不能理解印度人这方面是怎么想的，强奸，轮奸，而且是暴力的，不知道做这件事时有没有想过自己的亲人？谁能给我解解惑。
这 csc肯定不会翻拍啊 这种方式来达成自己目标 在我国可行吗
印度不仅仅是因为qj，更多的是种族制度，宗教信仰让人分三六九等，相比于资本势力，这种种族烙印封建残余更应该被铲除，否则这种奴役歧视和悲剧会一直存在。
对美帝无能司法的控诉真棒棒哒。
比起弱点，桑爪更应该借这个片拿奥斯卡。估计是公司没好好操作。
印度啊，国人都已习惯笑话你，但每每看到这样质量堪比药神的电影，一部接着一部产出，我只有由衷的敬佩
直到最后才啪的把真相给你
剧情有点拖拉了，奇怪的面部特写，一下子就猜到了绑架原因。
含而不露的演出，但一切尽在不言中，真厉害。
桑德拉老成了这样，岁月不饶人那，还是男的抗老。请看基努里维斯。
另外，该片竟然不是用印度语
强奸大国拍摄的批判强奸的电影，的确很有现实意义，作为女性我希望印度能改变女性国民的现状，而且我也希望全世界的女性都能免于被强奸的危险，希望所有强奸犯都能获得死刑，但单纯作为一部电影从观众的角度来看，不得不说前面大部分都太冗长了。
一开始就知道不会出事的悬疑片，在一个区域内绕了很久，然后突然转向到印度社会议题。一星半的加成给这个社会议题，拍的在及格线以上，总要去发声，即使微如游丝，也好过一声叹息。
电影稀烂，唯一值得一提的就是影片最后一句话的，每八分钟印度就有一个女孩被强奸
我们就这样不自知地步入一个有罪恶，却无罪感意识，有悲剧，却没有悲剧意识的寒夜？无法使人更高贵，反而使人更加卑微。使人自私、猥琐、狭隘和猜忌。把人们的注意力吸引到细小的事情上面去，没有使人超越人自己本身，却使人称不上真正的人
真的希望法治可以走进印度社会…
话题尖锐，但节奏太慢了，在女性议题之外还想加入新闻伦理、网络暴力之类的话题，但都蜻蜓点水，反倒冲淡了主题，完全没必要加。
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