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)
定位很成问题。如果确实是给孩子看的，那这种精神污染程度即使对于胆子最大的小朋友都刺激过头了；如果也兼顾了年龄更大的受众，那无论是惊悚桥段还是脱困段落，也只够得上儿戏的水平。更重要的是，明明主角之一被设定成爱写恐怖小说的nerd，到最后也没讲出一个像点样子的故事嘛，只是可惜了贫穷但用心的美术了。
怎么突然就开始演新纳粹恐怖袭击了，头子还是市长，这不会是马克龙的竞选宣传片吧！这种双警出任务的嘴炮动作电影，好莱坞和香港都拍烂了，法国人却还在乐此不疲的拍，并且法式幽默真的很无聊。路易斯莱特里尔在法国从动作片起家，得到好莱坞垂青，拍了几部大片扑街，又回归法国拍这种中等制作动作片，听说最近接下了林诣彬甩手的《速度与激情10》，也算一个轮回，毕竟这家伙电影里的追车戏都拍的不错。
法国的新纳粹要是这么有胆，还至于投降的那么快？片中对种族歧视的描绘还挺淋漓的，有一些笑点不错
不伦不类的电影，不知道属于什么类型的，那个漂亮的女巫最后怎么没交代呢！最后2倍速看到结尾！一塌糊涂
儿童恐怖片 还行 年纪轻轻就体验社畜的生活 像极了写不出文的自己 小朋友演的还挺好
前半段哄小孩子的，要到后半段才会有点点意思。
儿童故事也可以很有哲理，它显然不是。拼凑大于故事，是以电影支离破碎。
这个评分这么低？不可思议，被朋友安利到，刚看完，哭的稀里哗啦，民间故事结合鬼怪力神剖析人性，看到最后才反转的好片子
感觉剧情，拍摄都挺不错的，喜欢王真儿的原声。
儿童向电影，告诉我们小孩没事别写恐怖故事，更别离家出走。话说特别讨厌那个黑人女孩，干啥啥不行，闯祸第一名，遇事不好拔腿就跑。另外那个小孩讲的恐怖故事一点也不恐怖，
国产恐怖片的尿性，不是装神弄鬼就是神经病，和第一部一毛一样的框架，套了个壳子讲了个不一样的故事，你说你打个悬疑情感剧都好，非得加个惊悚来骗我，气人
弟弟整天赶稿烧书删文，所有写文的写手都应该来看看这个片。想看安妮海瑟薇x克里斯滕里特的双巫婆片。
胡乱的剧情和剪辑，不过我喜欢王真儿。虽然故事反转我都猜到个八九，亲情部分还是挺感人的。
20220406——96；关于芭蕾。有些失望。
巡捕房就不能支援一下吗 一个女主对抗疯子群
virginia vs. alaska哈哈哈.要不是两位女主太美真的三星都不想给. diana在里面演的角色不是很讨喜. 感觉故事拍得太急了，芭蕾片段不够，做成mini series会好很多吧.
封建迷信真的害死人，封建迷信真是当权者洗脑pua的强大工具，应该说封建迷信就是他们创造的，目的就是洗脑培养麻木不仁的螺丝钉！
儿童恐怖片 还行 年纪轻轻就体验社畜的生活 像极了写不出文的自己 小朋友演的还挺好
Might be good for elementary schoolers, definitely not for adults or me. The actors did great job and sometimes could be absorbing and scary for young kids. It’s just not for me.
真的没想到比水怪1好看太多了，后面我真心有被感动到，好看，继续加油！
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