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)
是非，黑白，善恶的对立，灰色地带的讨论，不算韩国很优秀的电影，解解乏还不错
小警察在厕所被刺伤那段有点假，
前半部像戏里的高级西装一样干练有气质，后半部节奏混乱，让人摸不着头脑
“只要你做的事结果是好的，就有民众支持你。”不是非黑即白，而是踩在灰色地带。商业电影一如既往的套路，反转反转再反转，总之让你猜不到结果又能预估剧情走向，有些情节无需较真。完全靠演员演技支撑的一部电影。
两位男演员我都挺喜欢的，但故事节奏有点怪怪的，也不是说不紧凑，就是故事太密集，野心太大，什么都想放进去，但是作为一部犯罪题材的警匪片我还是觉得可以看一看。
“当大树开始腐烂的时候是有一些征兆的，比如叶子变黄……”
改編自日本，節奏雖然還算緊湊，但並不吸引人。臥底的手法幼稚，沒有什麼技術含量；黑與白的說辭早已是陳詞濫調，並不耳目一新；也談不上有什麼令人驚喜的反轉劇情；……白瞎了趙震雄、樸熙順、崔宇植的陣容。
小警察在厕所被刺伤那段有点假，
我觉得挺好的，可以翻拍成各具特色的祖国版和米国版还有霓虹版。
前半部分太平了，节奏感和氛围感不强，导致虽然演员演技都不错却始终难以吸引人。
2022年的第一个四星作品。
可能是这次看得不太专注 最后我还看了个抖音短评才勉强把片子串起来 疑问是杀他爸的修车的 就这么算了？
有点毁我童年最爱小说。不懂为什么要改编成李小曼要求作弊结果引发大火。
老实说，没看太懂。太多细节没做解释，不知道是故意的还是无关紧要的，总之，有点混乱。
八十年代的味道，虽然说是儿童电影，但我感觉成人才更适合看。关于勇敢、温柔、真诚、爱……这些今天亟需的美好品质。虽然有些情节不一定合理，比如飞机送绳子的比例问题，但瑕不掩瑜，很喜欢！
这可能是第一部我希望用时长来“优化”的电影，最后半小时剪辑也太赶了，明明前面节奏还不错...结尾可以说是既理想又现实（理想化的成分多一点）：就算把手伸进土里，也可以选择不连根拔除，既然都是命运，那重点还是在于你选择如何去看待，是一直待在灰色地带，还是做一条畅游在漆黑污水中的锦鲤？总而言之，该做的都做了，无论结果如何，也没有遗憾了。
遇上了片后主创交流会。本来只是来关照下郑老师的生意，没想到哭得稀里哗啦的，当然有刻意煽情的部分，也有童年创伤被重新提起时才发现原来它还在那里的猝不及防……布景除了那些常见的八九十年代行货外，鲁西西床头的翁美玲版黄蓉海报是给我的专属礼物
特效土土的，剧情尬尬的，转折硬硬的，但作为中国儿童文学大前辈郑渊洁老师，多少还是有不自觉原谅这一切的情感。我尽力了。
三星半，好像过于复杂又过于简单的故事，再加上镜头节奏，最后更让我云里雾里了…
但是，我要把那些比我更恶劣的人全都抓进去
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