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)
社恐真的发挥到极致了 我觉得是好看的哎 虽然情节略微扯淡 但是感觉很符合当下的社会氛围 看完立刻出门锻炼 当代独立女性要有非常了好的身体素质呀！
【2022-2-16】逻辑混乱剧情稀碎但看的很爽，女主聪明且酷，打钉枪比消音枪还牛笑死了
新时代新冠疫情下强迫社恐人士因为人工智能信息安全保护女性权益之《后窗》，前奏冗长，镜头重复，几乎只爽在最后10分钟。（ps女主的家看着好舒适
题材不错，人工智能，信息窃取，可最后还只是一部对抗反派抓捕的普通犯罪片，感觉这片子就是索德伯格抽空拍拍练练手的…
很一般，没场面，没情节，最后女主发飙杀人反转太快。连续剧都不如。
酷酷酷！全程无尿点 节奏把握的很好 结尾太爽了！喜欢女主的蓝发
难看出一定程度来，最后用Elastica也不知所云。
有问题，别人帮不上忙，就自我克服，最酷的女孩。
没有做特别深度的探讨，就是一部爽快的剧情片！
很疫情關懷，plus data + privacy + metoo.
还挺好？拍没什么层次的故事的都请参照这个合适的时长，很尊重观众。
近期看的最好影片，封闭空间的悬疑故事，出不去房间的人的设定很有趣，不愧是索德伯格，总能用低成本拍好片
女孩的生活
结尾Elastica的connection用的太妙了！这才叫合格的爽片
怪力少女为正义反击黑恶势力 网络时代数据真的很重要 私隐也是
物联网现代版后窗，概念很不错，别具一格，把小度小爱都吓得一激灵。不过作为戴眼镜的人当你找不到眼镜的时候一定会呼叫同伴帮忙找啊。
最后出门你们两个没戴口罩吧。
很疫情關懷，plus data + privacy + metoo.
千万别惹技术宅，女子射钉枪反杀三名职业杀手，顺道加个可有可无的疫情元素
不会拍电影可以不拍。尤其是连剧本都不会写的话。
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