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)
昨日周四，支持五星。本来觉得结尾太过温和、理想，转而回想，也只有在电影中才能得偿所愿。保留一丝光明，为这人间的悲苦。
jc为了升职，只顾着破重大案件，女主的却不管，觉得没有价值。啧啧啧，可实际，多少人报警后也就只有一条回执，啥也没了。
再次验证，印度韩国的电影都把我们远远甩在后面。虽然他们电影照样拍，恶心奇葩罪行还一直犯……
不得不说，这又是那个南亚大国拍的牛逼影片！还是那句话：人家能把自己丑恶顽疾和不公现象拍出来，就已经足够牛逼，至于演技的瑕疵，逻辑和情节细节的粗疏，悬疑手法的不完美，还有所谓的“过于理想主义”的批评，这些都真没那么重要了。
当你震惊于电影的最后一句话，这部电影的目的就达到了！女主演的不错，不是因为她漂亮！
把PM设定成女性这一点我很喜欢，对女孩来说肯定是种鼓励。除了逻辑和结构问题，本片将女性的诉求和强奸问题过于简单化了，拿capital punishment当落脚点是为了噱头，男编剧怕是根本不敢写强奸背后真正的问题吧。一部为了拍而拍的电影，既然censorship无阻碍，那就是立场和能力不足致使本片远远没有戳到痛点。
印度能把这个社会问题赤果果拍出来就是赢了。
女性孤勇者。多希望这是真实故事改编，多希望她最终促成了法案修改。
阿三始终在电影里找到幻想的正义感……现实该怎么烂还是怎么烂！每16min就有妇女儿童受到伤害的阿三国改变不了邪恶现状……那么多年拍电影意淫和谐社会可悲哦……
作为悬疑片来说，氛围感营造的还是不错，该有的细节也有，逻辑尽量达到了圆满，是一部中规中矩的类型片，值得一提的是故事发生的背景和立意，印度强奸犯罪率居高不下，该有这样的发声，虽然故事是理想主义，但希望这是个好的开始。
蛮有意义的，但是这剧情和节奏真的不能忍，7分撑死了
至少敢说，敢拍，敢面对。希望现实可以越来越好。
预告犯的模式，手里有筹码，才能达到自己的诉求，误杀3开工！
看介绍推广文章时居然被剧透了，😵。所以没有多大悬疑反转的地方，可惜了。
前面悬疑氛围配乐音效都做的很棒，后面总理亲自与绑匪见面直播就太夸张了。虽然这片有不少幼稚的毛病，但还是要敬佩编导，这是当今这个社会这个世界最需要的电影，身为电影人必须去写去拍的有意义的电影。
影片本身质量其实挺普通，情节上也存在许多不合理之处，然而胜在题材概念，女主将自己的伤口剥开让世人看，宁愿遭受误解辱骂，也要为被强奸却无法发声的妇女鸣笛，延迟的电视直播，滞后的国家系统，迟到的正义还算是正义吗……电影结尾:当你看完这部电影，据统计，就有八名女性在我们国家被强奸。触目惊心，引人发省。
虽然电影很一般，但是印度电影敢于直面社会问题的勇气还是值得敬佩！很多事情你不说不代表他不存在，大家都装聋作哑，自欺欺人。
用看似极端的方式，撕开自己的伤口，来挑战另一个真正极端并且烂进根里的问题，女主真的令人尊敬~
Holy shit！印度现实主义是要向韩国现实主义宣战了嘛？
讨论的问题，挺有意义。但是剧本，拍摄和演绎，都非常做作，毫无代入感。
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