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)
意外的还不错诶！
特效还行，但是动作戏想向成龙靠拢，还需努力。
爆米花电影，轻松愉快。寻宝套路虽老但爽。就是选角不太喜欢，nathan喜欢的那个女的我还以为四十好几了……
福音小说，世上有很多很多像安琪这样深陷苦难中的女孩，却不会有那么多像迈克一样至真至爱的男人
寻宝过程挺喜欢的，人物的关系发展挺拉胯。
甘心爱他们；
很唯美，剧情不咋的，玛丽苏一头热，现实结局肯定不会再有孩子了吧。男主很完美！嗯看个风景挺好
想说女主作，但她的遭遇，又令人欲言又止。好好珍惜吧。
真的行，非游戏玩家也看得很起劲儿，有些解密手法搬到电影里有点生硬，但不耽误追剧情，到最后cp也能嗑得动
看了评分，以为是大家对冒险片太过苛责，但事实是它确实不行。
有的人被金钱主导 有的人被荣誉主导 有的人被情感主导 还有的 啥也带不动
农夫不拯救个漂亮妓女，都不好意思说自己的信仰很虔诚。
我以为是个传统的故事，在各种新三观不断涌现的当今电影世界，这部电影太守旧了。没想到它的确有点过时，而且俗套。有美女为何没有俊男？
总体来说就是没用心拍，硬捞游戏IP的钱。再进一步看，结论就是疫情之下，没有商业电影值得信任，所有人都在减少投入，加剧收割，行业已经是一片颓靡。
无聊啊
一般般，纯碎的爆米花电影，看的也不是很爽。看结尾还有拍2的意向，不过看票房不好说了。
马马虎虎可以看，也就个别动作场景还可以，但是寻宝部分很敷衍
游戏那么经典，预告片一点都提不起兴趣，糟践了
剧中全是明喻隐喻，感受到了神的爱长阔高深，不可测度。最近正好在读《民数记》，看到以色列民试探悖逆神十次，神依然是满有恩典又公义的神。在生活中我也时常像安琪一样，一次次逃离，一次次小信，求圣灵带领可以万事有信心。主角的命名上也很有巧思，先知何西阿取的是妓女，撒拉年老得子。
萨拉的三次出走，代表了她成长的不同阶段，是很合理的。
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