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)
而不是用故事来吸引
骑士和国王的冲突,在路上遇见的各个人都在最后有了对应.摄影可能是今年最强了
其实寓意倒是不难理解，但为了构图及画面节奏拖得实在难受。尤其很多地方处理得不好感觉就是满满的装逼感而没有共鸣。两颗星勉强看在画面上加到三星
慷慨、礼貌、贞洁、虔诚、友谊；这像极了一部语言
蛮累的，主角一开始接受合约也不知道是不是只是一时兴起......蒙眼奶奶说的：“你不是真的骑士。”他就立马逃跑。废柴经历了那么多，看到后半生如此还不如早点死去也不愿意多思考要怎么活自己的人生（他觉得他这样才叫勇敢，因为他终于可以勇敢的面对死亡了）。最后皇冠还是给小女孩戴起来了，整篇都特别讽刺，这大概就是我的理解。当然要夸一夸摄影和美术以及各种荒诞的隐喻，真棒~
二刷， 觉得值得5分。电影的改编让故事更合理
只可惜我對亞瑟王傳說不了解，影片裡大量的隱喻、語言腳本都看不懂。
“现在砍下你的头”
特别的成长故事，时间是所有人的敌人，也是所有人的朋友。
A24可以成为这种影像风格代名词了，用各种神迹和隐喻去表达似是而非的宿命和抉择，世事不过一场游戏。
仁者见仁，智者见智。高文最后是在得知“未来的情况下”看到了:逃避回去后的最后结局是凄惨而懦弱的死去，才选择的赴死，总之“你不是一个骑士”，虽然“这是一场游戏”。但镜头的质感和色彩的运用都超级喜欢。
改造通俗类型
如果真的能以单单摄影而不是数字特效做到这些画面的确是蔚为可观的。而另一方面电影的叙事层次的确单一，聚焦在高文一个人身上的视角固然能使人物形象更加清晰但也过于单薄。高文骑士成长道路倒是合理，不是一定要通过考验而是要认识到错误这点的确是反映了基督教条的普适性。这样来看高文迈出城的第一步就算成功，成功是一个结果，而荣耀确是一个过程。
我感觉这是一个关于爱和勇气，得到和失去的故事。。。红色是欲望而绿色是腐烂的颜色是欲望过后留下的东西。。。
红是欲望 而绿 是欲望之后的东西
改编寓言故事成大烂俗套的电影。强行升华主题反效果让人尴尬。当妈的不从小教育孩子，让他放纵不羁爱自由。临到继承关头，变几个戏法让他改过自新成为合格继承人，扯淡么这不是。烂编剧看来不光国内有，国外也一大堆啊。
印度裔就离谱……我还专门去查了查，外网基本都是从21世纪英国已经不是单一人种这个角度去狡辩，我也是无语。
非常非常A24的片子。开头和结尾能到五星！尤其是那个结尾，真的太打动人了。但是中间quest的部分有点冗长，我这个能看闷片的人都不太忍得下，需要缓缓。两个小时时长感觉有三个小时。摄影配乐绝对是今年最佳，镜头美得不像话！
如果你不是特别喜欢中世纪奇幻风的自然风光 就可能会看不完吧
城堡内的改编太乱了欣赏不来，结局的解决方式倒是很不错，色调黑绿黑绿的，可以，这很不列颠。#
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