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)
小巧舞台剧，反转嘛肯定有刻意与巧合的地方，大方向上没有出离人物就合格啦。
风格，才是这类影片的出头之日。否则就是鸡肋，食之无味，弃之可惜。
看似环环相扣，实则无脑爽片，想学ROPE只有皮毛。
中规中矩的不错的片子，3星半，7分
唉感觉这辈子再也看不到那些精彩绝伦的悬疑电影了…实在不过瘾，没什么太大的惊喜
猜到了挺多地方，比较喜欢中间三分之一。优点是匠气十足精致平稳，缺点是有些逻辑上的问题不太经得起推敲，看了诸多回答仍不能被说服，理解为“电影仅展示一种可能”是唯一解决方案。
很精致的电影。但我更希望老头不是outfit, 他只是根据剧情发展他所掌握的信息，在中间当狼，然后和前台全身而退。
看见马叔把坏人打死，还是很爽的。
看看人家这演技！其他有些人还好意思说自己是演员吗？整个故事只基于一个场景，却足够惊心动魄，足够演一出完美的舞台剧。
Gangsman/最后十几分钟的强行反转和诈尸真的大可不必，毁了之前的精巧。
非常惊喜的一部电影
故事结构精巧，剧本非常好。反转有一部分猜到了。女主演技很灵。cutter最后那一剪刀真的很吓人，恶魔一样的神情和姿势！
“我让你查案，不是让你把他送走”笑死
“完美之所以是个必要的目标，正是因为它是无法实现的，如果你不追求完美，就无法做出伟大的事情，但真正的完美是不可能实现的。”
孙锡久 Sukku Son很适合演这种角色，眼神就很坏，杀人不眨眼，是个狠人。马东锡 Don Lee是不是又胖了，上肢力量无敌，一拳击飞。韩国人拍近身肉搏戏拳拳到肉，力量感很真实。抓连环杀人犯需要理由吗，上去就是干。偷渡，绑架，杀人。暴力执法？
太厉害了，场景都没转，全靠台词衔接叙述。挺厉害挺厉害。
老大叔太厉害了吧，各种心理战术，许多反转给人惊喜节奏紧凑，电影色彩也很复古，很不错的一部电影。
整部影片就是在一个裁缝店发生，从开始到结束，所以剧本的故事和结构都要通过演员的台词、道具和表演去推进，挺成功的，剧本很扎实，虽然多少有点套路，但是是好看的，大家可以尝试观看。
想看的孙锡久就这么点内容，孙锡久的表演进入一种类型化
没看过同类型电影的话，这片子很友好，不会有很重的隔离感
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