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)
就……还可以？
吴君如喊出了那句“同工同酬”。但最后好心人的帮助和耀眼的成功又隐藏了事情很多本身的原因。
吴君如真的牛，当之无愧的好演员！演喜剧能让人捧腹，演感情片也能让人感动！
中规中矩的悬疑片，范伟是被小品埋没多年的影帝级演员。
6.9/10期待有点太高了，结果不如预期。
看了点映，剧本打磨的非常优秀，在一个房子里发生的故事，每个人出现都有用处，不同角色视角一点点展开信息量，伏笔衔接有时候觉得细思极恐，有时候有喜剧的巧妙达成的高级搞笑，为了不剧透点到为止透露。（这种剧本也超级适合改编成舞台剧啊！）
这么多好评刷的人好尴尬吧……我已经很久没有在电影院有度日如年的感觉了
小偷偷坏人钱救孩子命，盗亦有道；外卖取前任命钻进钱眼，鸣也亡命。能把自己逼上绝路的只有自己，什么时候，都可以坚守心中的道义和做人的底线。
他比较喜欢。残奥会香港金牌得主苏桦伟的事迹很感人，但电影比之中国女排什么的错了好多身位。
题材很好，角度新奇，演员演的也不错，剧本过关，光影调度都可称上乘。
我向来对国产片比较宽容，但此片有点爱不起来，且有几处穿帮。主要演员里有俩，一个加拿大国籍，一个美国的。需要自己看，累，落下一些镜头就串不上了。我喜欢朱珠，比林志玲好。
用力哭不如用力跑！吴君如又演了一次伟大的母亲角色！
广影 悬念设得不错，就是有些巧合过于刻意，而且这么大动静也没引来朝阳群众？
妞非要闹到看的一部电影，挺励志的吧，小主观感不错。
优点是多次反转后还把事儿讲明白了，逻辑通顺没把自己绕进去；而且确如导演和制片所说，中国内地是比较缺少这种“封闭空间+多方博弈”的类型故事的（也正因此这个优点才成立）。缺点也比较明显：这个“多方”中除了范伟和窦骁的角色，其他人都塑造得缺乏代入感，都是走过场的工具人。逻辑通顺而工具人太多，就导致这种感觉：这个故事是比较工整，但是它跟我有什么关系呢？
多线程叙事还整得很明白，新人导演太难得了哟。如果没有最后2分钟可以给4星。不是很懂又没有水钱是怎么冻上的…
3.5。剧本杀式电影，随着范伟的角色进入，不知道其他人物都是做什么的，在剧情深入的过程中一点点得知。可以更high一点，但是目前也很不错，张颂文的存活是出于过审考虑的吧。窦骁糙一点的样子明显感觉更帅一点……
#2021.135#小剧本，错位剪辑，漏洞百出
纯粹的黑色幽默犯罪片，完成度还不错，窦骁是惊喜。
小偷入室盗窃，偶遇命案…
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