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)
拿弓弩的女人长得实在太像会不断复生的死人了
我觉得挺好看！分数偏低了。不过男主的智商确实太低了
跟某网友说的一样，明明是一个短篇剧情，非要拍成大长篇，一大堆无用的画面，拖慢整体的节奏感。
化妆很牛啊！看完之后就会一直想起“一个半朋友”的故事。
一星都不值得给，bug一堆，剧情太傻，俩人作死而已，哪是想一起发财，就是想一起自杀，射箭的除非是团伙不然最后也得被灭口，男主突然得了什么病？身体烂了这么快就虚脱玩完了？
故事线很弱，重点在突出退役兵成为雇佣军的内心挣扎。不好看也不难看。
有没有可能那坨金子已经被无数的人发现了，但是它至始至终一直在那里。
Jack Bauer居然演反派，我不能接受
拍这么长肯定是想让我也感受到困在沙漠里的口干舌燥
还是差那么点东西。代入感很强，如果自己陷入那种局面估计也好不到哪去。很多人说男主贪婪，但中途他曾敲下一块金子准备走了，但又对本地男心存希望。逻辑上还是有点不通，两姐妹是在这儿守着金子吗，还是她们偶然路过？
从安全屋 坐飞机回美国 复仇 都放飞自我了…😂
还行，有超级明显的穿帮镜头，而且这个穿帮镜头连续重复出现了两次，就是男主受伤被木棍刺到的镜头，木棍的位置一会在左边一会在右边（无语😒）
仅仅可唔的、结局源于
从开头就猜到了结尾。男主过于简单善良。要金子不要命。
这两三个人出演的电影就是为了演绎人为财死这一定律吗？不好看。
欲望+绝境求生+犯罪+独角戏，这种片子一般不会差到哪里去。
人都这样了，杀个人还费劲又是埋又是烧？吃饱撑的？
看在Pine的面子上勉强给加一星，真的不太好看唉，节奏感掌握的不算太好。
想表现人性的贪婪，最终双双陨命。亮点不多，比较吸引眼球的是干燥荒芜的隔壁沙滩！
Violence of Action - those days in bj!!!!!
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