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)
小成本暴风雨山庄 还挺精彩 女主像蒋勤勤 头发不错
还可以呀。我被某个短篇误导，一直怕出现精神幻觉的煞笔剧情，结果还是正常的展开。要不是这点观影体验更好吧
反派不补刀与主角同罪，期待了半天的逆转期待了个寂寞
这种剧本真是很无聊，结局还是那么老套，反派又是死于话多，警察又是龙套，女主光环严重闪瞎观众双眼，顺便还附赠油腻美式家庭和解团圆。
真是没什么东西拍了，只好找个亚裔女来炒冷饭
感觉女主磕了药才战斗力翻倍的，所以。。。然后内什么，车里藏一个螺丝刀能救命啊哈哈
暴风雪山庄情景下的小旅站，非常常见的设定，反转再反转，全员智商在线，血浆充足，另外女主的脸在暗光下神似巩皇，饱经沧桑又一腔热血。
还行，剧本就挺扎实的，严谨，但就是觉得没有那么出彩。
作为犯罪惊悚电影本身，一波三折。反过来想想，电影能这么拍，米国社会也病的不轻。
小说改编反转，低成本惊悚片，亚裔女主《求救信号》，还可以。
有被惊喜到，三星半，原来是改编自泰勒·亚当斯的小说《无处可逃》。
如果没有思路拍了。那就可以去学习。真的不必拍烂片。
演员很在线，故事节奏、构图画面和音乐都调控的很不错，后半部分高潮迭起，善最后战胜恶，虽剧本是老套路，但效果已经很不错了
普普通通 好基！好会烹饪榴莲 但这么一做不会暴露自己住址吗！
就……很普通，所有角色都有点迷惑行为。整片最有记忆是令我学了新的扑克玩法。
打牌的戏非常精彩，其余的部分就都是cliche了。
悬疑度不高，坏人暴露的很顺滑。结局看到姐姐的亚裔颜，还是值
还凑合，氛围营造得不错。就是俩贼好像是在演喜剧，警察是智障。女主的背景交代篇幅有点过多。黑人陆战队好像是24小时里的总统吧
女主演技不错，有枪的时候不控制住恶人是这种片的老问题了，里面有两个人光速白给也是老套路。
世界越来越阳痿了，这一年来看的恐怖片，质量是真不行，又浪费了一个半小时。
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