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)
非常拖沓，剪辑、节奏、镜头都有问题，要不是为了范伟和张颂文，谁会来看这种片子
多线性叙事的故事还算完整，但不高级，细节经不起推敲，槽点较多
新人导演处女作长片，算完成的很不错，7分以下的评分有点低了，个人评分7.5，给个四星支持一下。
挺好看的呀，叙事方式讨喜，演员演技也在线，荒诞又正能量，轻松解压的悬疑片！
感觉差一口气，太想营造反转，但整个故事看完没能给人留下什么余韵
还可以哦 有bug但是有些地方反转的还是蛮意外的 顺便问一下 推冰块是因为啥？
但为什么只有女主死了？
有新导演初出茅庐的锐利。看得出导演编剧模仿能力还行在低成本制作单场景下能搞出怎么多花儿来。如今创作局限里能充分表现一个半小时精彩骗中骗好戏也蛮厉害的。范伟还是演有点范德彪似角色最舒服喜感
影片前半程的节奏、叙事和喜剧效果还是蛮不错的，然后逐渐泄气、拖沓，慢镜头太多审美疲劳。范伟老师最近作品超多啊，水准依旧！
居然有点烧脑，反转过瘾。小孩出来那一瞬间快破防了，为人父母见不得这些。愿世间光明多一些
黑色有了，逻辑还是不严密；结尾要停在冰块儿那，然后电脑哥被锁死就很银河映像了（这被绳之以法的结尾虽说是必须，但当年[毒战]不还有个全员阵亡的可选项先例么）；复刻[低俗小说]桥段不有趣，因为台词太“实用主义”了
点映场。又是一个借多线叙事手法，把普通的故事搞悬疑搞复杂。演技在线，编剧差点意思。
虽然全程看完没有快进，但是还是欠缺一剂强心针，作为观众，我看完，觉得平淡如水，啥都不是！
故事的设定很悬浮，演员的表演到是很不错。结尾的主题升华非常公式化。
还行，想看，影院没等到，等到优酷。张颂文，窦骁好评。
不断推倒重来的剧情，不停反转的人物，一个房间内的悬念迭起。虽然有bug，但还是很吸引人的。
剧本太工整了，工整到缺乏惊喜，结尾又太突兀，同类型片子太多了有点审美疲劳。话说有次在地铁上看见一个人留着半长的头发，花白的胡子，还戴着眼镜，觉得特像范老师，但是跟平时形象不一样又不敢认。盯着他看了好几眼，他注意到了也对我回以微笑。现在想想，大概是拍这个戏期间的造型吧
剧本可以啊！！！反转反转！最后窦骁也太帅了吧
蛮好看的，小场景多时间线插倒叙事和层层反转，人物形象分明及几个瞬间表演也很亮。不足之处是部分反转有些刻意为之，到结尾已经疲了，另外就是片子初段总有点小品的味道，后段好很多。
一个心肠不坏的小偷，一个行为诡异的外卖员，一个暂时不能剧透身份的阎姓男子，一场罪恶滔天的贩卖交易。在一间平淡无奇的密闭居室，在错乱回溯的时间线条里，上演着又搞笑又惊悚的周旋与碰撞。五星了。
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