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)
三星半 导演的氛围营造水平无敌 最后的高潮戏份感觉能被影史铭记 寓意明显 女性面对男性的困局较为刻板印象
绿色的海洋，色调看起来有些不真实，一种见离感迷幻了观众的视野。洞穴之光，回音游戏，所有意象的堆砌，是为了表示讲述一个现代寓言。有的空镜很美，但是又显得故事张力不足。空洞的感觉，就像拆开俄罗斯套娃一般。
加兰你太🆒了！feminist horror，借Green Man自然与重生神话上演了一场批判男权制的身体恐怖狂欢。
男人在生态里的寄生虫般存在 and 这片在letterboxd和豆瓣上的短评大趋势好不一样（。
当下的两性问题已经到了非常尖锐、极端的程度了，在极度夸张的特效下，一些最本质，最深层次的问题被揭露出来，意识形态、青少年、生育、教育、宗教、文化等等，这些内容要不以非常直观的方式呈现，要不被藏于隐喻之中。不过作为电影，确实没那么出彩，因为其本身也是一种传播意识形态的工具。
年度影片！
好久没有这么爽的cult片了，断手和套娃绝对永垂邪史。
前半段电影画面真的很美 随便截一张都可以当壁纸了 剧情就感觉有点莫名其妙 不知道导演想表达什么意思 背景音乐倒是挺渗人的 片尾的套娃真是恶心坏了
中间一度给我看笑了，主要是男人受伤或者死我都没法共情，干外科又看惯了这些血腥，最后那个套娃可能还真是男人想要的。闺蜜还是很太阳的，但是怀着孕我就突然想到这些傻缺男都是女人生的，这比这个片子让我难受多了。
邪典片儿，最后无限生殖可以留名影史了。不恐怖，然后看不懂。奇特的是友邻都给了极高评价～感觉女主是在跟男主的pua、道德绑架和强加的内疚作斗争，最后好像是赢了，但是貌似也真有人被杀了？隐喻过多，看完致郁，隔壁的黑色电话不香吗不爽吗？奇特的是友邻们都评价很低。也许到头来大家都喜欢自虐吧～ps：加一颗星给Rory，看完才意识到都是同一个演员演的，NB！
开始当做科幻标签看的。
希望《钛》的导演看看，什么是真正的女性视角！
creeps the MEN out of me
很有表现力。男人就是那种只要往那里一站，不管说不说话，都能让女人心惊胆战的存在。当女主问你们为什么要这样做，因为他们可以，这就是父权社会赋予他们的权利。这部片子的内核十分简单粗暴，但色彩和场景的运用却很唯美。
男人看了惭愧自省，女人看了惊恐悲凉，已经高于一般恐怖片而到了用表现主义展现男性社会对女性无形压迫的范畴
和湮灭一脉相承的creepy。隐喻的意思到了，还是稍嫌老生常谈。
画面非常美，氛围非常惊悚
层层包裹、恶性自体增殖的男性性欲最后吐出来一个精心包装试图利用女性同理心和负疚感的“我要你的爱”
三星过低，四分有点高。隐喻很好，各种电影只是提出问题不解决问题，看不到出路已经想摆烂了。
最后的最后，咱要不还是把“科幻”的标签去了吧。。
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