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)
如果你自认为有着一定电影鉴赏水平的话，听我的别看
中小成本的武侠片，高潮戏用心发力，动作和舞台式的布景设计让人眼前一亮。上次觉得还算不错的武侠片已经是绣春刀了。
必须有东西激一激这个平静的江湖了。
风格化的人物小传，像一本摊开的武侠小说跃然眼前。短短70多分钟却构建起一个丰满的仗义之侠，内热外冷的形象有点酷。故事脉络清晰，情节没有水分，美术和制作上也远超网大的预期。眼瞎心不瞎，快意情仇，值得一看。
四星，多一星鼓励
篇幅挺短，故事没有添加太多无关的内容，但还是出现了熟悉的情节和熟悉的台词。动作设计还好，剪辑偏零碎了，花哨的动作不多，但一如既往的慢动作和时不时的放大招还是有些出戏。谢苗如今的作品远不如小时候，无论气质还是表演。
喜欢这种没什么道德感约束的主角，为诉正义，神挡杀神，痛快
篇幅挺短，故事没有添加太多无关的内容，但还是出现了熟悉的情节和熟悉的台词。动作设计还好，剪辑偏零碎了，花哨的动作不多，但一如既往的慢动作和时不时的放大招还是有些出戏。谢苗如今的作品远不如小时候，无论气质还是表演。
盲侠座头乙。设定才是最无敌的，这电影里设定成乙无敌，有没有眼睛跟琦玉有没有头发一样无关紧要。宇文拿箭射人这个手法和2010年看的《十三刺客》里也是一样，那部片血腥得多，三池崇史的暴力风格。看完才知道成乙是谢苗，完全认不出来。
一个简单的武侠故事，简单，但是纯粹。雪地火刀帅爆。ADC打刺客还敢近身就是找死。如果每个公道都要用这种搏命的激烈方式，恰恰说明公道不存。
因为预期低，结果超预期，快意恩仇，爽！但特效方面过度渲染，建议应该收敛些，注重实感而往拼死往视觉系靠拢。
融入的潮汕地区传统文化和婚育话题，新旧观念和原生环境必然意味着融合需要时间和空间，好在是个不错的结局，爱真的能抵抗一切吧。
m22108：雪夜窗台，摄影光影很赞。人瞎心不瞎，苦命人互助。故事需再打磨打磨。
好无聊啊。
平淡且真实 但我还是想说一句 没娶到自己心爱的人还是你的无能
四星，多一星鼓励
完成度挺高，也挺利落的一部小片。
也看了不少谢苗这几年的网大了，从整个片子的质感来说，这部应该是最佳的，如果上院线也算是不差的武侠片。也算是兑现了谢苗那些年自己的承诺，既然没人给资源就自己从网大起步，做大做强。所谓武侠，其实金庸已经把侠之大者说的很明白了，而侠的最初无非就是快意恩仇，路见不平拔刀相助罢了。瞎子眼瞎心不瞎，所以侠气纵横。整部电影的动作设计是过关的，剧情上相对薄弱了点，尤其琴娘的死就是为了死而死，然后渲染一下大雪漫天，说真的杀完人之后打光下的这些雪都能看出是假的。
简简单单把故事讲好，武打再到位就是一部好电影
中华爱马瞎士单刀尽屠一个黑帮，简单快进的人物互动，人间不太平，以武犯太岁的那味，联系三日前之唐山，男儿当如此，不惭世上英。还我狗命都4了，续集可以安排一下。
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