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)
国产版罗生门，没有流量，演员演技一般，但胜在靠剧本把故事逻辑圆上了。
非常惊喜的国产恐怖片 几乎没什么槽点 在审核如此严格的情况下拍成这样非常不容易了 貌似鬼片 其实更是讲人性 人比鬼可怕
依然是“身体恐怖”的柯南伯格，只是这次一点也不恐怖。进化论、内在美、新罪行——左、中、右安排得明明白白的政治隐喻。手术即性爱的概念就像空壳，说真的还不如钛呢，好歹钛是人跟车做爱。看完我也想吃塑料了...
柯南伯格延续了自己拿手的Body Horror 仅对标他本人的话算不上有新意 感官冲击上有些像《录像带谋杀案》 概念上又偏向《欲望号快车》 内核接近《大都会》《星图》 因此必然导致口碑两极 也注定拿不了奖 小k的表演不算精彩 大概和角色本身有关 蕾老师和维果的表演更亮眼。Surgery is the new sex. 这概念真牛啊
各方利益的纠葛，故事大部分都是用台词来推动，这么有趣的题材视觉上太弱了，显得有些无趣甚至枯燥了。
一开始以为是沉浸式卡夫卡，后来发现是真没看懂。。。
以为是恐怖片 没想到是人心 真的升米恩斗米仇 果然后面人心最可怕
对未来的另类书写，手术演化为一种新式性爱。
仿佛是对当代艺术的阐述，主要看如何解读。可以被称之为罪行，可以被称之为肿瘤，可以被称之为进化，可以被称之为艺术，可以被称之为内在美，可以被称之为x爱……
不错不错，国产恐怖片里难得看的下去的，本来想打三星的，多打一星以作鼓励吧
意外还可以。故事线整体比较完整，漏洞和瑕疵肯定有，但瑕不掩瑜。值得看。
原来是个环保片？？（恐怖血腥惊悚程度不高，对克隆身体器官、人体解剖恐惧的小伙伴勿入）
有一说一这情节虽然烂，演员演技不是吊打那些流量吗。
人类发展到未来，痛感致命的部分被弱化，取而代之成为性快感。perform一语双关是手术也是表演，是人体学解剖学科学，也是艺术，更是艺术，被围观的性狂欢。
网大能有这个水准完全吊打电影院那些破玩意了，里面有一些八恶人罗生门的味儿，最后的结局有点僵尸的意思。
2022-07-04
原来是个环保片？？（恐怖血腥惊悚程度不高，对克隆身体器官、人体解剖恐惧的小伙伴勿入）
很多都没交代就莫名其妙就那样了，寓意挺好，毕竟最可怕的是人心。可是圆不起来
故事讲得还是不错的，不算粗糙。谁也不知道乡野怪谈的背后吃人的到底是妖还是人。看到最后，我甚至希望真有狐仙出来惩恶扬善。
看的不是很懂，但对于柯南伯格我又不会对其否认，所以这类让我纠结的电影就不打分了。高概念艺术化和象征化的电影，看完很费劲，想探索其深层的政治、哲学也很费解，因此不做过多评价
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