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)
66/100
搞笑，影院里气氛很不错，有能让人不尴尬发自内心的笑点。魏翔的演技着实让人惊艳了。情节略有点单薄，米兰被老魏感动的点不够那么有说服力，感觉只能用她本身的责任感和善良来解释。老魏回头又来救姐弟俩也是差点意思。
“对员工的压榨干涉已经到了无所不用其极的地步。”
這片還是挺適合過年的時候看，樂呵一下，前提是不帶腦子觀看。魏翔還是挺可愛的，是個好演員啊，還是蠻喜歡他演得這麼『神經病』的感覺。這片舞台劇味道很重啊，來來去去就這麼幾個場景，還有打燈，就是舞台劇的規格，背景特效做得很一般。致敬的迷影梗還是有意思的，看到了《教父》《雨中曲》《阿甘正傳》《賭神》等片的東西⋯⋯
我是很喜欢这个电影啊。又体面又虚伪，还有那么点幽默。
基本上看不懂作者在讽刺什么，这老板放我们这确实属于好老板啊？
前脚送走一个姘头后脚就勾搭实习生，为了评奖插手员工的生活，好兄弟的父亲只是服侍他爹打猎，迎检时意味深长的介绍语，实打实的好·老板~
太尴尬了，水平基本是个《欢乐喜剧人》小品的加长版，对不起三谷幸喜的《魔幻时刻》。
我觉得是不错的商业流水线电影，希望豆瓣上的人能平等对待欧美日韩流水线和国产流水线电影。
资本家剥削工人阶级，榨取剩余价值（钱权色）。不因时代改变，不因国家改变，只会更加隐秘化、多样化。
有几个桥段比较有趣，但这部作品实在不像是部电影，无论从故事、镜头还是布景都更像是舞台剧质感。故事逻辑与推进不到位，强行煽情也没什么必要。如果不为剧情只是为了单纯笑笑的话这部电影还算OK，如果在乎剧情那就算了。
影片中保持天秤的平衡贯穿始终，回看现实中，无论职场中还是职场外，几乎所有事情的发展过程都可归纳为，产生冲突，相互妥协，实现平衡的不断循环。世上本没有绝对的平衡，就看我们如何调整支点。
是不错的汉化翻版，但所有的好几乎都来自三谷幸喜。我这辈子都不会忘记北影节在资料馆跟500人一起看《魔幻时刻》笑成傻逼的观影经历！
挺真实的，主角演的太好了。一切都为了生意，不要看他嘴上说了什么，要看他究竟做了什么
边看边想这跟魔幻时刻也太像了吧，果然在片尾看到是改编，但看完我只想再看一遍原片。那种扮演好儿子的煽情戏码真的太多余了。
非常精致工整的幽默讽刺。毕业、家人、政治正确，怎么看怎么眼熟哈。
合格的贺岁喜剧片，很开心麻花，有包袱有笑点有致敬梗。《雨中曲》那段DNA动了。最好看的片段，我认为是彩蛋魏翔百感交集的杀青感言，说这是他演艺生涯第一个男主角，戏内戏外巧妙共情了，微微泪目。
具有时代讽刺感的轻喜剧电影，只是篇幅有些过长，部分故事情节有些拖沓。好老板创造的“家族式”的企业文化就像是一个巨大的谎言，每个人都各怀鬼胎的在职场上拼命挣扎着。这部电影算不上多优秀，起码打发一下时间还是可以的。另外，巴登的表演确实不错，串联起了整部电影的剧情衔接。
上帝创造世界，需要七天；欧洲改头换面，也需要七天。平衡之道，在于吔屎。
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