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)
没有一句台词，层出不穷的怪物，充斥着黑暗血腥场面，奈何我就是不太感冒。
随便说两个片段：
One absurd,creepy,illogical,bloody,but also amazing movie
非常棒的定格动画，肉块状的血腥场面，表现的淋漓尽致，极强的视觉冲击，到了足以做噩梦的地步。
太精致的定格动画，每一帧都很用心，就是画面是真的是掉san，而且情节的确非常非常的晦涩。
a weird yet inspiring journey
有些画面极易引起不适。
反战、反乌托邦、反托拉斯、渎神……等等？元素过多，没看懂。
很适合在喝醉的时候看。cult色调很舒适，爱了爱了
。。。用网文的思路去看顿时就好理解了，上古战争灭世，天魔横行奴役三界，为了推翻魔道人类不断派遣修士，结果被魔头挖出元婴，翻手间创世灭世（doge）
有点超前了，没有对白你都不知道在表达什么。一直解谜一样
本来该很恶心的，然而却没有!
工业废土，科幻战争，血腥暴力，古怪迷幻，这是一场满足你猎奇心的盛宴。
虽然很掉san，实际上后面还看困了，没想到这也能助眠，可能是太长了后面没啥新意，弄成短片多好
关于宇宙起源和沉寂，关于物种的不断轮回与反复自我消灭。死神与核战，难道是每一次文明轮回的必然归宿？
很喜欢任务人被抓住之后被医生开膛破肚深入挖掘血液四溅最后掏出一只虫子婴儿的场景。
医生从病人尸体中不断取出来的金钱，战争，天灾与人祸。血淋淋的世界
除了画面比较有冲击，想象力隐喻和讽刺的情节🐮
非常过瘾，极度残酷。资本主义发展到极致就是地狱的样子。最后给自己灭掉，又回到自然状态。瘟疫乌鸦代表的上帝其实就是自然，宇宙，神。神才不在乎人类怎么想，一切不过是周而复始。
定？！格？！动？！画？！
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