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)
贾樟柯-平遥电影节的入选节目。讲述了生活在市中心旧大楼的几个孩子和家庭在大楼拆迁前后的生活画面，反映了这个国家的破旧，普通百姓的努力与艰难。叙事平淡，转场有些生硬，可以当纪录片来看
太拉了……剧情很老套……不过里面的帅哥美女还是能看看的
前1/3还行，越往后越拉垮，模仿大师没错，但别请他做监制，会束手束脚吧。
看的我打哈欠，看到衣柜那里就关了，希望后面没有什么好看的东西，真的太无聊，而且都不符合逻辑，隧道算正常，红衣服故事不完整，寄生虫那医生碰到这种事情谁他妈还去帮那人做啊，招魂那个莫名其妙，你俩是拉拉也行，关键并不是，怕人说闲话故意疏远的那种，这种还要去招魂简直找死，层间噪音这个更无语，敲个门板敲出爱情了。不看了还是睡觉吧，有时间去b站看邓肯的怪谈比这香。
让我回想起了当时亲眼见过的各种场景，非常真实。
隧道，红衣女，齿虫，招魂记，层间噪音，衣柜，冥婚，镜子中的女人，人体模型，密室逃脱。
不到两个小时的电影竟然塞进10个恐怖小故事，可惜保量不保质，恐怖元素大杂烩却不能做到每个故事的逻辑性
长这样，还不接受，那就把你变丑。
城中村拆迁，小镇青年无处安放的青春，很贾樟柯。很中国。
由科长来监制确实很合适，很少看到柬埔寨的电影，镜头语言流畅，表达的略显浮皮潦草，欲言又止，风格和科长的有近似。
平遥。
纪录片镜头感很重，有点学生交作业的feel，节奏整体有点拖，感情表达又感觉浅了
很适合矫情文青看的一部电影。与其说是一部电影，不如说是一个贫困的家庭在一个贫困的国家的监控录像。实在很难鉴赏出其中有什么电影美学价值与意义，几个镜头看的我几乎干呕。抱歉啊，我没法共情他们的痛苦与快乐，我只是为他们感到可怜。
作为一部专供偶像idol们表演的恐怖片，就只能打发时间看看。
一个个小故事不会让人疲劳，最喜欢人体模特这个故事。整体而言，太过了，很多故事狗尾续貂了，加上了五毛特效恐怖感失去了很多。
细致的声画处理，感觉触角真的触到了氤氲潮湿的柬埔寨，但遥远的触角末端发生的一切又央央地共鸣回来。
PYIFF观看，有一种很特别的感受，可能是因为去过柬埔寨所以有情感加分
哈哈哈哈 全都嗝屁啦 消遣时间还是可以的
一部120分钟的电影塞了10个故事，也是厉害，每个故事都是如此没有新意，没有一个让人眼前一亮，平庸到了极致
柬埔寨贾樟柯，不可阻挡的城市化，无法回去的家园。
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