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)
自愧不如，甘拜下风！
人物有点像《三块广告牌》中的女主有些愤怒，坚持。桑德拉的眼神，表情现在好有戏。
为了妹妹健康成长，选择扛起罪行，背负一切。
大冤+大爱，这是全人类共通的戏剧主题。很感人，桑德拉布洛克的表演很高级，把这份忍辱负重刻画得入木三分，谜底揭开的点也恰到好处，停止在姐妹相拥简直是太明智的选择，干净利落，余音绕梁。
在Netflex烂片水准之上，导演想表达的人物和信息太多，于是会觉得一些线索和场景其实没必要。本以为会和三个广告牌一样，但这部片子更加真实，人物的发展更加可信，亦母亦姐的身份反而增强了姐妹两人之间的牵绊，不是母女更盛母女，但除了警察兄弟之外：）。
人物的設置都還挺好的，都有他的功能，但空間留得並不足，似乎所有的力氣都給了女主，但這就顯得結局特別的爛尾。
真相大白前觉得不可理喻，觉得律师老婆和女主的对峙句句在理，真相大白后又是另一种不可理喻。
桑婶被高票评选的片子其实每次我都不太喜欢，这次高分纯粹是因为她真的演得好。我以为是大团圆的he，结果每一分钟都比上一分钟让我悲伤，也不知道为什么新年第一天就要看这么个致郁的………单她真的可以再拿一次奖
表演状态很好，但是导演的剪辑能力、拍摄能力、还有讲故事的能力都just so so
桑德拉好会挑剧本，演的真的很好，有人太挑剔了，我觉得特别好…这种感觉真的太难了
替妹妹入狱的情节有点狗血了，桑婆的表演很好。
5/10。除了桑德拉布洛克的演技是真的好，实在讨厌这部片子的方方面面。
直到最后才慢慢交代真相，虽然大致也可以猜到。细节刻画的很到位，每个人物都很有特色。回忆的色调是温暖的，这可能是Ruth生命中唯一的一抹亮色。结尾那个拥抱太让人伤感了…
残酷，太残酷了，地球社会对待前科犯如此残酷，一些信任都不给你，只要犯了错坐了牢你就是永远有罪，谁关心你是什么原因实际上又是什么原因，根本没人在乎真相，不知道是法官有意为之还是警探办案不力刚好脑子进水让小孩姐姐顶罪蒙冤入狱。换我，我也不信任前科犯，换我，小孩犯罪我也想办法顶罪，太残酷了，太残酷了！
露丝为了自己的妹妹，甘愿坐牢二十载，承受所有不公和白眼，失去工作和爱人，还要遭受受害者家属的报复，露丝身上闪耀着伟大的母爱。
烂片，本来就不可饶恕，非要饶恕坏人才算政治正确吗？？？？
剧情反转的那一刻，突然感觉之前的沉闷，慢节奏，突然都有理有据了。那么长的铺垫，20年的隐忍，就为了这一刻感情的决堤与爆发。才发现最近看的电影竟然都是网飞的，虽然电影的最终归属是大屏幕，但网飞的确给电影制作带来了太多的机会。
女主的演技真是棒，配角也都不错，优秀的演员让这部电影加了很多分
女主20年前为啥不找个年轻人演，跟她6岁的妹妹看起来像娘俩，其实20年后也像。
居然是在Seattle拍的，这儿阴郁的天气倒也符合这故事的基调
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