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)
带小孩去看了，孩子非常喜欢。小虎墩太可爱啦。小虎墩义无反顾勇往直前的精神让人感动
30.09.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | aka "Let there be garbage". 五岁小孩写出来的剧本吗烂到好笑了。MCU又迎来烂片一部～
在大家都期待超级英雄的降临时，是一个又一个普通人把自己的所能拼凑起来，然后才有了划破黑夜的光亮
略平淡，不出彩，故事有点老套啊，不过不难看，鼓励一下
很适合带孩子去看，有亲情却不煽情。影院里所有孩子都笑得很开心，有些地方大人也笑得很开心。整个影院都是笑声。春节最适合带孩子去看的动画片，我觉得好过喜羊羊和光头强
傻❌带着高手闯世界，规矩不懂，功夫不会，用这个当笑点太下乘，风云，剑雨，满满换皮怪
给小侄女放，自己也跟着看，就孩子看着挺开心
与春节整体氛围非常搭！不得不说，在过年期间看一部这样的电影，确实是年味儿满满。
都去追冰墩墩了
不为护镖而死，而是为护镖而活
开头就笑死，抢亲和红山猪那段，哈哈哈！🤣🤣🤣
其实我觉得还好啊，而且故事也挺完整的呀，为什么影评说没主线呢？最差三星还是有的。作为虎墩的粉丝，多一颗星给小虎墩儿，超可爱。
2022年2月1號星期二/正月初一
与春节整体氛围非常搭！不得不说，在过年期间看一部这样的电影，确实是年味儿满满。
很适合一家人去看的合家欢动画电影，蛮喜庆的，虎年大吉呀🐯
也别叫“小虎墩”了，就叫“韦小宝”得了。四岁多的孩子不爱看，三十多的大人也看不下去。
粤语版太有亲切感了，好睇！爱上了杨总镖头哈哈哈哈哈哈❤️
配角形象有特色，但是在行为上都有不符合逻辑，需要强行依靠台词来解释的部分。总之剧本还不是很过关， 但美术还算不错。
和猫猫一起看的电影，热血、温情、感动，猫猫说感觉时间过得好快
陪孩子看的，拍的很不错，对孩子很有启发，值得一看
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