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)
？？？………… 杀那俩人有用吗……… ？？？ 最后他妈的为什么还要有特写？？？
3.5题材很好，和当下的上海疫情遥相呼应（），但拍得又浅又平，该铺垫的地方不铺垫，属于完全是靠观众自己的经历和共情才能感同身受到主旨和细腻的感情流动，需要观众自己找补。两位主要角色都没塑造起来。
音乐很好，演员很好，甚至两位母亲演得比原剧更出色。错就错在几乎完全把舞台剧的表演模式照搬到生活实景中，严重影响它作为一部电影的节奏和情绪。
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果耶妹妹凌厉、恨意燃烧的眼神确实很有力！
就会觉得自己在世上是孤独一人的
低保的世界，也有那么多的故事。发声，鼓励发声，正当的权利理应值得拥有和保护。
歌好听，冲着青少年心理健康主题也要加一星然而电影本身是真的有点不行……
八年过去已经看不下另一部壁花少年了 本身也很差
又是一部看完心情沉重的电影，没想到兜兜转转缘分这么深。。。
很引人深思也很日本…制度的不完善…底层的痛苦永远被漠视…不给人添麻烦的耻感…海啸后的食物争夺…一切都很真实…
一场地震改变了一切，脆弱的保障体系值得深思
适合心情灾害重建的人，套路是旧的，但是关怀是好的
三星是给歌曲的，影版真的好奇怪，之前看大悲饭桶的影版没有这么水土不服的感觉，这部的拍摄手法就让演员一开口唱歌就变得很奇怪，非常尴尬的感觉…而且Ben的脸上大银幕的确不太适合…
为什么大家会喜欢看awkward high school kid的故事 电影拖的好长啊啊啊啊 说一句话停顿三次。also, evan is srsly a little piece of shit 心疼两位妈妈
21.10.10: 其实这个剧情真的就很无语，但是歌都很好听。之前一直在摩尔粉丝群里听别人说so big so small是她的重头戏，但我觉得实际上也没多重头，真可惜deh拍出来的效果不好…
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用极端方式向社会发出诘问可取吗？人是真的救不过来的，只能有选择性，善良的人更无奈吧，身处其中，ta不是更该懂得这道理吗也做着近乎一样的事。阿部宽真的好像三石弟弟长大后
今年最大疑惑之一是为什么DEH不直接放官摄？？？？？Ben本来减肥后就显老电影镜头里更是快老成Fred Armisen了Kaitlyn Dever看上去跟他侄女似的…虽然唱得挺好的吧 AA和Julianne Moore是不是欠了谁人情帐才接了这部…但无论如何DEH音乐剧是非常好的 Ben是非常会唱的 电影是非常非常没必要的 希望大家直接去B站搜录像看看吧……唉😮💨
真不是每部音乐剧改编电影都能手到擒来，与其改拍成这样这样还不如去拍官摄。导演真是不行！这么好的音乐剧这么好的演员都浪费了！音乐五星！演员五星！导演0分！
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