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)
架空科技畸人秀，cult 还是原汁原味的柯南伯格鸡肠子罐头，对性、道德、艺术边界有那么一丢丢探索。但这《东方的承诺》+《感官游戏》的剧情缝合怪放在今天显得老气横秋，剧本节奏拖沓得可以，推进情节基本靠聊，切两刀+聊15分钟+跳个舞+换个屋子聊15分钟，如此循环三十年。难以想象body horror 宗师现在要当个跟随者，在《钛》这种风格强烈且极具冒犯性的新片面前，这部显得力不从心。过于架空的科技树失了现实质感，也让角色之间的冲突和伦理边界显得难以共情（唯一能有点撩拨的就是性了，拍的还那么少）。总之，还是熟悉的柯南伯格，但也是流于一般的柯南伯格。喜欢的导演，严格点儿2.5。p.s. 蕾雅姐那个包公4.0的整容方案tmd 给我看笑场了。
破烂玩意儿，还是跟二十年前的《感官游戏》一样，弄些丑陋恶心粘乎乎的所谓科技设备，就装科幻片了。归根结底就是在贩卖变态。
昨天看睡着了，今天把剩下的看完，理解可能有偏差。现如今每个人都是行为艺术家，缝上嘴巴只用全身耳朵来表达的行为艺术表演者，可能形式大于内容。最极致的表达又是反求诸己，用身体去献祭意义。看那些切割画面，我竟然可以目不转睛，得益于拍摄视角的客观呈现，不血腥不迎合。
那些器官和血肉回來了。最喜歡其中關於藝術創作與表演的部分，以肉身影射將烈度推向極致。柯南伯格一如既往探討性與人工虛擬性、媒介（攝影機和電視）；此番野心也拓展到進化與人類的未來。有許多令人驚異的cinema時刻，但類似《大都會》和《星圖》，在收尾時有些乏力。（沒有字幕Viggo的太多低聲台詞都聽不清，待重看）
如果你期望看到恶心、变态的奇行种，那你要失望了。这部电影非但不重口，跟真正重口的B级片比起来反倒有点小清新。
出乎意料的好，作为网大来说质感相当不错了。可恶，不喜欢没有妖的结尾
Lea全裸那一躺真的是最高美学 其余未见有新鲜感 Sadism orgasm也都是上个世纪的产物了KS演技又下滑 实在太难了 全片有句台词最能评价这电影 “I dont like the ears, they’re striking but thousand ears is not good design, the extra ears don’t even work. They’re just for show.” 一个词“累赘”
Dream is the Eternal Sex.
柯南伯格的男妈妈圆梦片。导演几乎是迷恋地把发福衰老的人皇阿拉贡打扮成一个因为怀孕而身体略有不适，但意志强大与各方周旋，出门都要带斗篷把自己遮起来的男妈妈。小K那场戏像不像公务员调戏老百姓？雷雅则扮演了一个比较莽撞但心怀理想的女丈夫角色。算比较新鲜的解构。玩票性质明显。或许目前只有欧洲那种衰颓的气质能拍出来这种质感了。让我想起贾木许的唯爱永生。
观影门槛太高，是我自不量力。但愚钝如我也能看出，柯南伯格也许是位伟大的导演，但肯定不是一个合格的科幻作家。
三星半，现在网大真的要超过某些院线电影。本来就是奔着做手工消遣看看的，但就如电影所说的一样，任何事都不是表面看起来那样的，推荐看看。
龙王庙故事大讲坛。
“人恶人怕天不怕，人善人欺天不欺；善恶到头终有报，只争来早与来迟。”
禁言30天之后的奋力补标：编剧真的算是不错了！
I mean...what IS this?...seriously...
真是惊喜啊，一部网大能拍成这样的水平，属实用心了，要是表演，台词再跟上点，特效和尺度再提升一些，绝对院线级别！
说话太多 讲得太白 太scifi了 不够神秘主义
网大真是太穷了，好剧本没有一个好团队真的很难拍出有质感，视听出色的电影，不过导演未来可期。
失去痛觉和疾病后人类的感情会如何，似乎是比如何做爱、如何吃、如何环保更有意思的话题？ 母亲杀儿子、父亲展览儿子，也好像比什么裸体切割艺术家博览会好玩一些（当然可能这个艺术家的厌烦和不想玩了对艺术没兴趣了还不如当间谍呢就是大师的日常心路吧
最近两年网大电影的质量越来越好，一出“罗生门”故事，每个版本讲的都还不错！可惜结尾有点故弄玄虚或者强行圆满的意思…
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