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)
我很不满意
当结尾那道代表爱与希望的强光于20年后再度袭来，PTA影迷必定会心一笑，更加肯定这是用《不羁夜》的色调再度重温青春版的《私恋失调》。大师突然的自我，走不出上世纪70年代的美好，随性随意的作品也有无数镜头值得玩味，如第一次拥抱犹在镜中，青春在不停地追逐和跟拍，爱情也在不断寻觅中修成正果。《私恋失调》5年后出现惊为天人的《血色将至》，有理由期待这是大师又一次起飞前的玩票或游戏。
开头走廊上的拉扯，不切，用个完整的长镜头会更好。
好是好，可是有点长了，像有点腻腻的桃汁，还有那个傻逼尾随男，真的是，让我想起了以前公司那个傻逼小头头，真踏马傻逼啊。
表达他所要表达的
優點明顯。首先小馬們都很美。其次表達主題在當今世界很需要從小對小朋友滲透：消除偏見，隔閡，追求相互溝通和理解，要有大愛大胸懷。
独角兽要么丧要么神经质，太奇怪了。陪娃第一部电影。
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多羡慕他们可以理直气壮地把一切抛在脑后，肆无顾忌地奔跑……
前半小时不错，叙事很清晰，配乐沿袭了性本恶半即兴式节奏，但没有那么呱噪，配合人物情绪相得益彰，可惜半小时后表达空洞，支撑不起形式，叙事凌乱，女主前面积累的矛盾未梳理好就引入毫无亮点的新人物，和血色比差出十个大师。表达贫瘠果然是好莱坞编导的现状，连独立制片也集体歇菜，只剩形式上的重复与刻板，老马丁说的一点也没错，电影这个行当真就只剩游乐场了，PTA还可以厚着脸皮吃老底，其它人干脆噤声了事
陪闺女看，换新马了，名字还没记住，还是好朋友
大美女人设应该大美女来演；可能预期过高了，整个阅片过程都很别扭难受，如坐针毡两小时
关于奔跑这件事情，亚洲人跟适合，比如溺水小刀里的两位，西方人那笨拙的体型，跑起来没看到青春
I don't really understand.A little boring.
3.5 First Movie of PTA
美国风情画一样的影片质感，味道对了。但是过于刻画女主的际遇和成长，简单的让男主一帆风顺，创业有成，是不是某种意义上的偷懒呢？
这个电影好真，就从真实人生切下来拍的，所以看起来中间有很多沮丧，没意思，这两人也没那么迷人。但是结尾那个拥抱，一下子又拉回四星了
很扎实，几处定格就把人物心理展露无遗，事情的转折看似什么都没讲，但呈现的结果已在情理之中，好笑又大条。
不烂，却也不算精彩。
剧本平庸得让我以为自己在看伍迪艾伦，这么讲究的摄影技法配上这么垃圾的故事，或者说专注雕虫小技必然剥离故事审美的能力，不管怎么说，导演真是糟践自己，也糟践观众。
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