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)
被开头劝退了两次，太腻歪了😂结果发现我错了。剧情演技真不错。好看。越看越好看。强烈安利。
和susan阿姨对峙的时候我看哭了，后面的安慰和陪伴同样感动的我泪流满面。
一开始就看得很郁闷，但有一股漩涡似的吸引力牢牢抓住了视线。（据说是）一镜到底制造出强烈的真实感、压迫感和焦虑感，同时叙事清晰、段落分明，不乱。很可预测的剧情走向，但看到最后还是非常叹息！
90分鐘一鏡到底一間餐廳開店後一個多小時的設定不可能編劇有頭有尾，電影採取連串事件填塞時間到就卡不廢話，挺適合90分鐘長片並帶有短片性質一氣呵成感覺
笑死，甚至开始思考自己有没有在无意中吃过人肉！
矛盾制造的有些画蛇添足，不过最后甜甜的“美满”倒是勉强给剧情收住了
却在最后无声的爆炸
整片只有一个镜头长达九十分钟，货真价实的一镜到底。
elijah 和 kokoy的演技太绝了 CaiReel is Real！
笑死我了 法语名甚至叫Barbaque 很妙
素食主义者真够偏激的 这样那样都能扯上动物昆虫 那什么都不要吃最好了
年龄大了看这种甜甜的恋爱一点感觉都没有
编剧不太行，但演员演得挺真情实感的。还可以。
床戏小细节，嘴唇特写色气满满。不用纠结体位或互攻，看过gv的我偷偷告诉你们，这都是常规操作😆
刚刚做完西班牙大厨Miguel Cobo的纪录片, 再来看这部电影, 可以毫不夸张的说, 欧洲顶级厨房的压力, 这部电影做到了百分百写实, 一点没有夸张.
单身狗直呼齁死了
猎杀素食主义者，把血腥的事情写成轻松的喜剧样式，可以说是很戏谑了
长相甜美的白人女孩服务生做得顺风顺水，比较自卑的黑人女孩却被种族歧视者刁难。
Don't apologize for being who you are.
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