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)
覺得好似用微單拍完的，導演完全不懂得用兩個演技出色的演員，不做任何有效的鋪陳就讓演員在長鏡頭飆演技，看到一頭霧水完全找不到共情點，可惜陳湘琪一身好功夫
差不多最后半个小时才看懂哪个是目标，最后男主没被杀死也是遗憾（对自己和观众来说）。但是看完依旧没明白重点是什么。可是正装的男主还是很迷人的。
3.5分 焦焦RAP好帅！没想到开分这么低，故事看着挺乐呵的呀……笑点常有，三条故事线处理得不错～不过结尾一般，送走vintage老爷爷以后转折生硬，虎头蛇尾
内容偏单薄一些，但靠演员和细节撑起来了一些。善于在语言止步的地方打开故事，沉默里都是戏，把人物处在忍一忍和不能忍的边缘状态表现了出来。
——2021.10.06
没什么剧情，但笑点还是有一些的
影片最精彩的部分是结尾彩蛋，林狗出场，嗯。。。
感觉吧剧本呢是按照剧本书的结构一模一写的，但是呢写出来之后像段子，一个一个的冷笑话，然后导演也对场景音乐太不讲究了，导致剧本上的危机桥段，大家都在嘻嘻哈哈过家家一样，这种不讲究导致的效果就是越危机的桥段，演员越投入，越像尬演……最后彩蛋整了个伪bl线，也是故意整活……
真实到想吐的程度…人到底为什么一定要用婚姻这种东西折磨自己…（音乐音响蛮好的 基本上撑住了几乎无对白的后半段 但看完还是挺困的…
设定很有趣，焦俊艳好可爱，但是没我预想的有意思....
我很喜欢这种描述状态的电影，多写实，渡过激烈争吵后的中年夫妻生活就是如此，表面一片死寂内里却暗流涌动，好一场修行。拜托对婚姻心存幻想的人都来看一看这部电影，早点戳破那些不切实际的想象。家的外面阳光和树叶都正好，就连疗养院看着都明媚，可家中的室内灯光却总那么昏暗，隐晦地流动着那些欲言又止，积蓄着一场场冲突的爆发，空气中流动积攒着的只有彼此的埋怨、不理解、拒绝沟通甚至是恨意。可最后在儿子的婚礼上，严太太望着新婚的小夫妻还是笑了，眼里又闪烁了一点光，我还不能理解，她应该看透了婚姻的本质，为何对后代的未来还有所期冀。还有婚礼上两人的老照片，严太太的平静和坦然，严先生闪烁了几下的眼睛，这个男人也自觉有愧吧，但又怎样，不会有改变。电影配乐真的很好，最喜欢最后那首，唉什么时候婚姻不是必需品能成为人类共识？
挺轻松的一部喜剧，适合跟朋友一起看，结尾挺意想不到的，很温馨
就吃饭看看还行 撑不起这么漫长的时间 剧情还是太单薄了
开头5分钟的时候就让我怀疑这电影是来洗钱的。。。王彦霖，你怎么了？？！！
#HKAFF
补标，烂的没想到要标！
陈湘琪和黄柔闽都演得有点好，让人有点害怕。
有些幻想还挺新鲜的，剧情逻辑有bug。女主这个智商+不科学，是怎么当上医生的？
autassassinophilia慕自我暗杀癖。结尾出乎意料，逃得出设计，逃不出怪圈。有精神分析的轨迹。
只要接受这个神奇的設定 後續的發展都能猜到 顏值還算是不錯的 不愧是島國奇怪的腦迴路 男主在被男高中生勒脖子的時候 突然激發求生欲 也算完全忠於設定了
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