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)
年度最美电影没有之一 正方形构图莫名就自带一种优雅的气质 哪怕画面里是个浑身烂肉的老巫婆
披着恐怖外套下的文艺片，逐渐融入自然与朴实乡村生活的记录。。。摄影与节奏一流，看着还不算太沉闷。
感觉片子是拿手机拍的，看着晃得头晕。远景不多，没啥美感，而随时出现的大特写粗糙丑陋到恐怖。不太理解高分的～对人性剖析和拉满文艺格调就得放弃好观感么？
皮囊只是在世间行走的表象，披着女人的外衣学习喜怒哀乐的情绪和如何与人相处；披着男人的外衣，学习性爱与力量，看见小女孩的死亡，懂得了悲伤和眼泪，化身为小女孩，学习生而为人的成长与爱情。感受风感受雨，感受世间万物带来的生命体验，她是女巫也是万物生灵
30几岁就得这种病 有点尴尬
很感人，这种题材真的很难不让人感动，虽然但是。最后把一切都加诸在一个孩子身上，这样好吗
魔幻的人世间，不过那是欧洲女巫的魔幻人世间。人类是什么呢？人类是这世间的尘埃吧，我们这一生太短暂了。
类似上世代棒子最拿手的纯悲情绝症片，角色本身倒置的关系是亮点，安圣基有一段自述表演非常感人，但仅靠演员的出色发挥显然不够，各种老梗烂梗意外梗满天飞，孩子的剧作功能太弱，再丰富一下支线会更好。
“为什么对你来说这么简单” “然而 然而”
痛苦中的温度
姐演技牛逼。剧情太拉了。很多地方本可合理一点。比如做证人那里。为了引出当众失禁女主崩溃这个点。但本来就可以去庭审前就穿好纸尿裤了。中间护工突然良心发现没有下一步恶行。还有最后莫名的被指引出森林。故事说现实挺现实。说梦幻也挺梦幻的。所以莫名两不沾。。可惜姐的演技了。
生命的延续是最可贵的 而又是最本能的
悲伤又美丽的女巫女性成长故事。还有那简单的爱，悲剧没有循环，you won’t be alone。
一首宁静又汹涌的抒情诗 （部分过于直白和机械的设定在这首诗里显得有些割裂）作为人 作为女人 太孤独了
7分吧，真的还不错，看了真的吃不下饭，太恶心了特效。。。。不过导演确实拍出了不一样的东西，值得学习
老女巫对女巫说：“你为什么就这么简单？！”“这世界灼烧着、痛苦着，这世界令人刺痛、让人恶心，然而、然而……”
「3.0」最终还是落脚到一种模糊的“爱”之上，然后始终触碰不到我的内心，女主以众多身份体验人生，这其中情感本应如此饱满，然而导演的繁复调度仅仅徒增诗意，尤其是那“失语”的独白，也许只是美学上一定程度复刻了马力克。演员的表情是呆滞的，因导演刻意削弱情愫的表现。美，同时空洞。
女巫一边掏心掏肺地给你念诗，一边体验着各种各样的人生，仿佛找到了真爱，又陷入了轮回。很纯粹的中世纪女巫故事，不是恐怖片，是一部又重口味又小清新的文艺片，想看恐怖片的人千万不要看这部。
当习得与人相处，当随着时间成长，你将不再孤单。
可以跟《钛》对比一下有意思。沉浸式视听语言很有代入感。如何能体验别人的生活，在这个维度上，人才不会孤单
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