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)
总共十个小故事，一般般吧，也没啥看头，不过是每个故事做了点留白，做了点让人想象的空间，没有说的那么直白。一般。
一个个小故事不会让人疲劳，最喜欢人体模特这个故事。整体而言，太过了，很多故事狗尾续貂了，加上了五毛特效恐怖感失去了很多。
城镇化的伤痛，既不深刻也不清晰，不只剩下忧伤
210726- 淡淡的，但一直是我喜欢的东南亚风景与气息
总共十个小故事，一般般吧，也没啥看头，不过是每个故事做了点留白，做了点让人想象的空间，没有说的那么直白。一般。
柬埔寨拆迁故事，有点闷有点虚，不太喜欢。
ps这个假人模特跟我在纽约的房东长得一模一样 我真是醉了
哎呀，每个短篇都是帅哥美女。现在鬼片对颜值都要求都这么高了吗？
李浩沅主演的'齿虫', 雪娥主演的'二手家具', Arin的'独自迷藏', 三个篇章整体完成度最佳。 如若多加打磨拓展为长片, 不排除产生佳作的可能。
韩国人对于“怪谈”的理解出现了一些根本性的偏差
蚍蜉无以撼树 甚至寸步难移
好闺蜜死后用约定咒语召回然后互换了
故事还是比较完整连贯的，没有突出的硬伤，也没有很触动我的地方（文化背景的差异可能是个人在某些方面缺乏共情能力的原因），不得不说，在中国语境下来看视电影中所谓的“雕刻家”、“艺术家”、“公务员”这些字眼，还是会产生一定的误读的。
坐在导演正后方。八方支持，实现心愿的作品。摄影还不错哇。
我还挺喜欢都市怪谈的，不过这一部感觉没有之前出的怪奇宅好看
小故事拼在一起的，恐怖度一般，有点像漫改剧情
去掉前因後果，直接把嚇人點子拍出來倒也省事。衣櫃和人體模特不錯。
没头没尾，一惊一乍，也就演员颜值还可以看，这是拍电影还是拍抖音啊
还行吧，短篇小故事组成。变橡胶模特和敲墙壁被黑洞吸走是什么鬼😓偶像版无厘头吓你一跳系列。寄生虫、独居+二手家具、夺舍、密室逃脱、键盘侠、杀妻、配阴婚
对视，把你变同类。
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