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)
20211020点映看过，窦骁在结尾送出了全片为数不多的小高潮，其余待补。
剧本耐不住推敲，手法又显得露怯，文本精细度和调度精巧度都不够，以至于不停的闪回反转随着手法的重复愈加疲软无力，这种片子放在十五年前很酷很潮，现在真的很土很low。范伟的口音梦回偏春晚小品，窦骁跟范伟搭的时候有种刘老根大舞台上临时组合演德云社的即视感，张颂文无功无过不值一提。看完只觉得，明明一个人满为患的老式小区为什么被编导设置得这么真空，几个天井俯视都没有人烟，跟老张交易时候领这么多孩子进小区不怕监控和邻居，一群人在屋里打闹摔东西没人报警便罢，都特么冰箱爆炸了还没有邻居第一时间报警，真是高估这种老式小区的隔音并低估邻居八婆的没事儿找事儿能力了。
花里胡哨的剪辑、故弄玄虚的讲述方式、随意的慢镜头，能拯救一部故事无新意、满身bug、假装很装逼的电影吗？答案是：不能。
楼下花园和筒子楼的构造以及营造的氛围，想起来，博尔赫斯，小径分岔的花园。
节奏稍微有点慢。
验货场面全场最佳，后面砍价算成本，硬要加段子，纯属画蛇添足。
作为悬疑剧还算是合格的，但感觉后面有点滥用升格了。
3星半，7分，对大众影迷是个小惊喜
黑色幽默看多的话，对这类诸多巧合之作就不觉得惊艳了。饶是知道他不断反转，也不愿高潮强推情感的骚操作。觉得人物的性格不够鲜明，模糊于故事本身，逻辑便也不那么清晰了。
其实还不错，说不上哪里好，也没有特别差的地方，悬疑反转节奏都可以，但是缺乏沉浸感或者代入感，观众也没有任何线索，可以说是本格推理一样的风格，但同样也没法把情感带入任何一个人，观众始终都是游离在电影之外的局外人，就像是坐着看别人玩了一场剧本杀。
最近这种结构的电影很多，不过我觉得就整个剧情，每个演员，还有电影画面，都属于最近拍的比较好的作品，不过于用力的故事也会是好故事。
算是国产疯狂系列的一部合格作品，后半段还升华了一下。就是结尾太仓促了点。
能把一个自带揭秘性质的片拍的这么无聊也是有点本事的。
6，处女作刻意标新，可惜既不惊艳也不工整。工业制作不错，点出贩卖儿童这个也不错，但几条线太碎了，直到最后都没很好地合在一起，而且也不好笑，窦骁很出戏。吐槽一下宁浩模式都快变成国内这些黑色喜剧的模版了，可惜没学对地方，好歹学个盖里奇的七十二变。
❷出现一堆小孩的时候，有点震惊了，万万没想到。
布局并不是很精巧的一部作品，刻意BUG太多，从运镜到摄影都透露着一股如同《扫黑·决战》一般的网大电影气息
这次的范式幽默，就藏在一间小小的屋子里。为了家人，为了爱情？为了钱！故事就像折纸一样，一层层叠起来，又剪开。
居然有点烧脑，反转过瘾。小孩出来那一瞬间快破防了，为人父母见不得这些。愿世间光明多一些
剧情、悬疑还是可以的。范老师的表演有点出戏。结尾，是硬加上去的吧。
看不懂豆瓣评分，是一部被低估的片子。故事过于巧合所以有点不适，除此之外，演员、剧情、故事、反转，我都很喜欢。尤其给范老师、窦骁点赞！
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