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)
短平快，细节是不能深究的了，分段式爱好者还挺能接受这节奏，虽然是可以做得精细一点。
整体平庸，没有太亮眼的故事，有几个没头没尾，看得人一头雾水。这个系列最大的作用大概是给某些爱豆转型抬轿？
县城青年的特质把握得很好，破败小镇萌生出一些充满生机的展望，这种观念也和贾樟柯暗合。
城中村拆迁，小镇青年无处安放的青春，很贾樟柯。很中国。
发现尸体，失踪当成嫌疑犯。
柬埔寨 前二十分钟看着还行/后面都还蛮无聊/没有浪漫化的反抗/只是推移着接受改变/是怎么失去的半条腿就像是怎么失去的一幢楼 @2022-04-05 00:54:05
霉斑和脚疮一起扩散，电视里是抗议、拆建、老屋、老墙。挚友分开，梦想隔绝，噩梦复现在大楼倒塌之前。用蚊香驱散蚊虫的这个雨季，蝉鸣了一个夏天。
蚍蜉无以撼树 甚至寸步难移
没想到哈，里面有一半的演员都是组合里的成员。那个招魂的妹子我说怎么这么眼熟，原来是oh my girl的成员
#20220108资料馆 平遥影展在北京＃ 典型的电影节项目 影像质感还不错 但故事没讲好 导演可能科长看得太多了（怪不得科长主投）可能这个片子最大的意义在于对柬埔寨这个国家的影像记录
又是一部拍摄导演自身成长环境的电影，可能很多小成本导演处女作都会从这里开始。影片中要拆迁的大厦让生活困顿的人们更窘迫，连看病的钱也筹措不出来导致父亲截肢。这样的岁月也并没有把年轻的男主打倒，这是我喜欢导演处理手法的地方。依然乐观，依然有笑容挂在嘴角。
浪费时间的弱智片...虽然恐怖片分类里烂片很多，但烂得这么没头没尾的短篇集也还是挺少见的
雖然都是老橋段，但半夜吹著空調戴著耳機還是挺瘮人的，總之就是一點壞心壞性壞行都不能有，就是成聖昇僊也躲不開牛鬼蛇神啊。
最后，导演说希望影片的一部分东西能叫醒睡醒的人们（让人们意识到问题），坐在我旁边观看的第四代导演（一个慈祥的奶奶）和一些观众可能实在无法睡醒，我也中途强打精神，偶尔看到一个象征表达才容易集中一会儿。我也希望在影展能看到更多快速、移动镜头的表达，固定镜头看的我厌了…
跟最近几年的《世界奇妙物语》一个水平，比不过之前的
冗长中带有温馨和诡异，梦境拍得很舒服，做了同款的梦
看到30分钟，齿虫患者要牙医脖子时果断弃……现实活着易不易，甭再添噩梦了！
《牙虫》最好，从看牙切入，悬念铺满，逐渐调查逼近真相，是丧尸片的新打开方式；《墙》本来可以做到最好，墙是很好的媒介来增强神秘感，可惜烂尾，女鬼索命反而打破了前面铺垫的诡异感；《密室逃脱》高开低走，概念很好，结束的过于仓促；《镜子里的女孩》讽刺感强，恐怖感弱。其他故事要么叙事混乱，要么俗不可耐
以城市拆迁的视角，展示一个少年的生活变化。在世事变迁的浪潮下，个体的无力感，最后都不得不妥协。
吓人到不吓人，故事也不算吸引人，但拍摄的手法都很专业，画面的氛围都很不错。
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