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)
这部电影为当下中国性别暴力事件中男人的困惑做了一个太好的解答，为什么作为个体的男人没有实施犯罪，却需要“承担”所谓的无法从all men中豁免的“代价”。和《隐形人》互为补充，一个说的是everywhere，一个说的是everyone。自体繁殖的意象很生猛。结尾那个怀孕女人是想说什么，一种割席对立还是同盟还是悲剧循环？
后半段Cult和隐喻部分实在是让人看的生理不适。不过对女性的压抑确实也表现得有点惟妙惟俏
壮观可叹（本片和贝尔法斯特都向下发现了HDR风光片的可用之材）
心理惊悚恐男cult片，整体氛围营造得很不错，对男权社会下的一次隐喻，男人的恐怖复杂且多样萦绕在女主身边，而且他们永远不停孕育重生，结尾和有些部分看得有点生理不适。
比预想的好太多，有一流独特的影调，有鲜明的态度和主张，情节虽被极度简化，但更强调氛围和符号化的隐喻。A24的片子一直给我“人狠话不多”的感觉，身为男性比女性更极端的揭露男性的恶，包括伴侣间的情感霸凌，陌生人粗暴的冒犯，借宗教之名假虔诚真淫欲，露骨的对女性肉体的渴望……最后一幕也足够硬核，足以载入cult片史册。
居然有这么多人在今天凌晨看完整个cult电影。前面很美。
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取景和镜头都极具美感，心魔的艺术化表现新颖而巧妙，你能想到的一切套路这部电影都不会出现，就是前1小时节奏可以再抓一抓，几个男性角色略单薄。裂开的手太经典，看完冲动点了鸡爪外卖。
电影里，英国乡村地区风景，越是平静美丽如画，越是反衬出女主内心的惶恐不安。在复制粘贴量产的沙猪男包围下，不安全感如影随形，女性并不具备放松下来欣赏风景享受生活的闲情逸致。恐怖的尽头，竟是恐男。
氛围很creepy 剧情=没有剧情 所有镜头都是象征和隐喻这点不太喜欢 男性凝视也让人浑身不适 比仲夏夜惊魂差些 跟<我们><星之彩>差不多水准 不是我的type 视觉上很好看 下次别拍了 3.5
蠢直蠢直的。加兰视听水平不差，但文本满足于简化，不去呈现复杂性反而搞些极大条的东西出来，一直想学塔可夫斯基但画虎不成反类了犬。从《湮灭》到现在，只能说是条不求甚解的邪路。
房东、怪物、男孩、牧师、警察，不同的男人有着同样的面孔，他们对女主施加控制与暴力，倒打一耙女主是罪恶的来源。在这限定性别的恐怖片里，男人的名字是无辜，女人的名字是万恶；男人的行为是求偿，女人的行为是还债。女主的前夫之所以选择自杀，怪女主没有在前夫对其家暴后马上原谅他？！不管自己是对是错，我这样都是你害的。能够如此逻辑闭环，这片真是太恐怖了。
随便看看就行了，希望导演下一部恢复正常水平
我还以为结局是女主拿着斧子🪓往男人的脑门劈上去。
形式做到极致 但符号化太过于明显 直接喂 最后这个套娃真的….一丝丝不适
和小段一起看。有点类似于《反基督者》，只是两部影片攻击的集体正好相反。最后将所有男人符号化，赋予切开的右手和折断的右脚的特征，连续分娩注定载入恐怖片史册了。
镜头构图美得让人心醉，随手可以截图明信片那种。女主角对前夫的心理阴影用形象生动到血腥残暴的方式活灵活现地撕扯出来，对男人毫无任何怜悯地批判。竟然是位男导演拍的，令人肃然起敬。
前面一整套拳打的都不错，这个结尾也未免太超现实主义了吧。
加兰这片居然和柯南伯格类似。。。只有美学风格的延续。。。问题是，你可比柯南伯格小了三十岁。。。
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