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)
怪异的未来，人体进化了，艺术也进化了，连性爱也进化了。蕾雅赛杜很美。
除了恶心的画面，
可以质疑如此这般的“未来”，但一定要退回到现在甚至过去吗？
“Surgery is the new sex.”
柯南伯格职业生涯的一次回望？？？泛黄的复古影像又带有些许未来感。前半段重回早期的感官刺激形式，后半段又来了一出政治隐喻戏码，几乎是两部电影。无用的生理器官是构建“艺术”的桥梁，从疼痛中寻找性爱的快感，完全把握人身构造，利用人类对身体的迷恋，宛如传教士一般操纵人们，观者满足于一场视觉奇观，器官摘除者与被摘除者也满足了自身的“性爱需求”。政府是一切掌控的观察者，资本、个体都不能过界，“行为艺术家”需要在一片朦胧中寻找“界限”，而政府则需要人类保持肉身。当然，人是寻找极限的物种，高潮感永远难忘，即使被勒令禁止，也不会停下来，意志会被继承，新的感官形式与器官进化也会到来，柯南伯格拍得极具诗意。第一场切割秀视听非常出彩，第二场感受美蕾的演技，以及氛围营造。
(啊 怎么越降越低了 拉一点点分
只想说 非常柯南伯格 顺便讽刺了一下当代艺术
难以想象，柯南伯格居然拍出了如此无聊的作品。
这个导演和男女主阵容和主题我本来以为尺度很惊人的，没想到走的概念流。大导演的好处就是无需限制级画面就可以让观众有限制级体验。剧情真的挺无聊的，有些概念很有趣，比如进食椅，那个解剖仪器几度引起不适，我反而挺喜欢耳朵人的🤦🏼♀️
bullshit！我思修课的小组讨论都比这玩意儿有趣
多给一星给大牌云集吧。N
有人看完像是尝了口toxic塑料 有人看完发掘新性癖 我竟然偏向后者 body is reality. surgery is the new sex.
很有意思的体裁和设定。但美中不足的是主角的言行晦涩难懂，而对于细节的处理又粗枝大叶。我感觉这样的片子处理好的就是下一个银翼杀手。
【9分】如果说前半部分还让我带着疑惑困惑和怀疑想打出七分，那当索尔最后坐在机器上献祭自己，流下那滴圣女贞德式的眼泪时，它在我心里变成了五星。其余见长评。
这么多年了，到底有没有人管管小k的演技。。。是不是观众不花火就把观众当傻子啊……
柯南伯格老师的内心是可太各色了，不好说他到底是会拍还是不会拍，这搁国内不就是坚决自我表达的小文青么
看一半睡着了 身体改造+颅内高潮爱好者狂喜
我觉得这是千禧年后柯南伯格给的最直的一部作品了吧，把故事套去警匪片都可以，但主要核心还是肉体异化，这是最柯南伯格的地方，几乎可以让我忽略故事。完完全全的柯南伯格爱好大集合。
怪异的未来，人体进化了，艺术也进化了，连性爱也进化了。蕾雅赛杜很美。
又一部柯能堡式奇观，异食癖与人体（器官）艺术齐飞，当我对能真正改变身体手段的认知还停留在穿孔 疤痕 纹身的时候本片已经将之上升到了进化高度
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