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)
最后想说：幻想是可以有的，但电影还是得踏踏实实做才能做好的[捂脸]
挺逗的。对我这种成天梦游的人来说，很能戳，毫无壁垒。我记得好早之前师哥瞎给我解释“实验影像”的概念，举了个例子：就是一个家具幻化成人，人幻化成家具。看的时候那师哥的胖脸一直在我眼前晃悠。
本来以为斯德哥尔摩看来我还是格局小了……话剧感满强的
天南海北地胡扯也挺有趣，打发时间看看也还行。
三不四个人一台戏，贫富与贵贱的心理剧。everything and nothing。1:20之后戏剧冲突，“劫匪”揭露了妻子与丈夫的不和，有备而回的妻子最后的赢家。
2021.10.13 欢乐一直在，王彦霖很帅气，焦俊艳也很好看呢
查理·麦克道尔好喜欢这种一屋两三人的配置。这次的故事意思不大，几乎全部发生在大屋里，人物关系的变化填满了整间屋，空气中弥漫的气氛时紧时松，中段节奏一度慢了下来。要是做话剧肯定比电影好看。
幻想画面与现实的衔接可以，尤其与狗友的抽烟聊天结束的画面。
那把过了这么多年都完好无损的黄伞请也给我来一把！
特别创新的一部电影，充满幽默和奇思妙想，如果身边的静态物都能表达自己的想法，那生活可能会有很多趣事
剧情有点可爱，但结局实在仓促，林更新是真的狗，喜剧的核心果然是悲剧。
4分 导演使劲设计梗让我们笑，放20年前可能真的好笑的，但现在我一次都没笑出来。男主能跟物料沟通，本来是一个能玩出很多花样的设定，但拍得乏善可陈。女主身为一个精神病医生，但行为更像一个精神病。至于剧情……好吧，好像没什么剧情。
张雪峰太不出戏了哈哈哈哈哈，挺好玩的啊，最后的林更新哈哈哈哈哈哈
人物动机极不明确，“变好人”的终极主题太过浅显，情节处理也过于草率，无非是靠着与静物对话的新颖设定制造一个又一个段子式的笑点，也无非停留在调侃性趣味和“屎尿屁”的阶段，但是这些段子，偶尔，蛮受用的。
好尬的剧啊，狗血的情节，浮夸的演技，没有主线和逻辑，笑点也很奇怪，没什么好看的。
电影挺好，适合解压一看。
感觉非常伍迪艾伦？三位名角演技了得，可是中途开始疲软到最后。。。这究竟是剧本故事本身的问题还是节奏的问题呢。2022/3/24大森家
脑洞打开，生活如此high！电影的剧情轻松，搞笑，观看毫无门槛，适合所有年龄阶段的观众。
观影活动去的，为什么这个剧本也有人拍啊 结尾的林更新挺搞笑的
值得去电影院看的电影，每个人都有烦恼，希望都遇到可以治愈你的“医生”。
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