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)
紧凑些会好点，就像电影中自己说的一样，只是为了在艰难时刻的娱乐大家一下。
小男孩真可怜，可以拍部续集讲小男孩长大以后成为温迪哥猎人的故事
女校长真胆大,看到门后的情况 了还敢上,赶快报警啊
鹿力大仙在美国，阴冷色调和黑暗底色什么都看不清
5.5/10 阴暗潮湿的小镇必出妖，又一个老套的古老传说，浪费了演技好的小男孩。
最后一场大战我感觉自己的智商被导演丢进茅坑里了
20220104 画面还可以，剧情就……女教师单刷2米高远古怪物。
可惜了小男孩这么优秀的演技以及影片这么出色的美术设计。
好久没见过这么纯粹的恐怖片
节奏缓慢，高潮垮掉，结局女人一人干翻怪物让人无语=_=
前期铺垫很长，怪物出现的方式模范异形，偷袭加吓唬观众，到了大决战就是站桩式处决。。。怪物就是个弱鸡
屎坑电影，光是看到我们大卫杜楚尼跟tiktok出现在同一个电影里，已经让我心淌血~
女校长真胆大,看到门后的情况 了还敢上,赶快报警啊
电影的拍摄不错，但剧情太水，这只是一只小怪、一只小怪，犯不着拍成电影，作者想象力得有多匮乏才能想出这样的BOSS怪呢？
主角光环过于强大，站哪儿让打，难道怪物还知道怜香惜玉？不过看在具有克苏鲁风格的题材上，爱好者还是值得看的。小男孩演技不错，挺卖力挺入神。
挺好的啊，孩子很努力啊，最近看的片子里最省心懂事的孩子了，尽了他个人最大的努力。就是这色调要把亮度打满才能看清楚，然后看的我眼睛疼。
好可惜啊，隐约觉得可以是一个小精品，不曾想最后还是浪费了这潮湿阴冷的怪诞小镇以及算是比较不错的怪物造型。
不知道到底想讲什么。
除此之外，故事很老套，甚至毫无恐怖氛围，没啥亮点。
5.6怎么拍的，这居然和我想的一毛一样，氛围感不错，但还是烂俗恐怖片。
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