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)
薛景求和千禹熙也救不回剧本的感觉 强行为了反转而反转 反而缺少一些社会性
最大的问题还是太不讲动机了，一路想当然到底。5
爱情友情亲情 love is love
最后的反转反而有些累赘了。对于普通人的我来说，这样的事只能用彷徨之刃或者撒玛利亚女孩的方法来解决问题。
典型的韩国类型片 是优势也成了束缚
最后影片呈现为一种大义凛然的主旋律叙事，一家人接连用名誉和生命保护了国宝的安全。
题材满分，韩国电影总能刺痛社会的最深处。垃圾人背后总有个垃圾家长。 最后反转其实有点不合理，掐死的警方不会调查么？
东亚be美学又出现了😭
"我怎么爱你，这是我的课题，而你要不要接受我的爱，这是你的课题。每个人都守自己的本分，过自己的人生。"
校园凌霸，最后的反转，受害者也变成施暴者了。可惜自杀的那位受害者的正义在父爱面试到底不是那么正义了
从沈爷那段开始渐入佳境，但药家这条线索的连载服务性太强了，有点厌倦这种……
跟李现对戏的雷佳音宛如影帝，面部表情生动得令人感动。
没看过小说，电影看的时候前面感觉还不错，很引人，但是我看到结尾感觉我没搞懂啊？让日本人以为是真的，让老朝奉以为是假的，可本质上还不是把真的送给日本人了嘛？
好久没有看到这么幽默悬疑的电影了，演员阵容好，喜欢酷酷的李现，幽默的葛大爷！还想刷第二遍
没看过原著，观影过程我还是挺有兴趣的，而且我很喜欢这种解谜哈哈哈哈，最不能理解的部分可能是，怎么确定最后日本人会归还这个佛头呢？还有李现表情太紧绷了。
不知道该咋评价……从一开始我就进入不了这个世界观，感觉时代背景和故事走向总是不太搭，总觉得拍着拍着会冒出来玄幻元素，但是这个类型的搭建吧，又挺稳的，有胳膊有腿的，除了无聊，倒也挑不出什么毛病。咋说呢，它当然谈不上多牛逼，但是像现在这种不企图说教你的老老实实逗你开心的商业片真的也很难找了……两星半吧。
（要不然选角大失败！）
活得久了，一定会开始怀疑，正义和真理真的存在吗？真相和结果哪个重要？
wuli大叔又是演一个苦情阿布吉，还很憋屈，不管多大多小的角色还是要给薛景求打call，最后那个眼神绝了。
最后影片呈现为一种大义凛然的主旋律叙事，一家人接连用名誉和生命保护了国宝的安全。
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