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)
个人不太感冒搭桥场外观众的病毒式传染渲染恐怖，遗憾伪纪录片的镜头真实感较少，正片有迹可循的答案跑到预告透露太多。
就是那种营造焦虑让人特别难受头皮发麻的恐怖手法，上学那阵的空手指莲蓬乳什么的，都跟着掺和进来了。
还好没再加恐怖音效
正看着呢，门吱呀一声开了，原来是逆子进来了。
很遗憾，在这样一部伪纪录片中，摄影机却一直被错误的使用…
加一星，女主典型粉切黑，迷信中毒患者。导演其实比较成功的展现了人性的复杂：若男一开始的想法应该是献祭女儿（以及亲人、朋友、网友等）保自己平安；后来把朵朵接回家后，又慢慢对朵朵又有了情感，产生了母爱，试图保护她；可是若男对朵朵的“母爱”又是摇摆的，自私的，归根到底是心术不正的（无论她要不要救朵朵，都是以祸害别人为筹码去救自己、救朵朵），这里一个比较经典的镜头是，若男一边哭着一边吃面包：哭是真哭，饿也是真饿，只不过，道德心终归抵不过饥肠辘辘。人性的自私、懦弱、摇摆与一念之间的善意，终究，抵不过诅咒之神——须知，大黑佛母的诅咒那是最纯粹的恶，因此也就最残忍、最强大、最直接作用于人。可惜，人类却没有与之相对的纯粹之善，去抵御更别提感化那纯粹之恶。
PS. “晦气”引发的观众差评倒是可以当做下一部的素材。
而且还利用了一些心理诱导和视觉残像的手法来和观众产生深度交互，
细思极恐，剪辑缺陷选择性眼盲，个人五星。(含剧透)
3.5，华语恐怖片向前走了一步 咒了所有观影者
没有期待中的那样恐怖，太多数氛围还是靠禁忌的东方民俗元素来营造，视觉上则依赖于密集的虫洞恐惧，伪纪录片的拍摄手法早已没有新鲜感，不过倒是很贴合民俗题材，导演在其中还安插祝福到诅咒的观众互动，让许多人反射性的感到不舒服，冒犯的表达甚至被骂上晦气的热搜，但也正因敢于犯禁的拉进电影与观众间的距离，它仍然是今年目前为止最好看的华语恐怖片~
哎不是，真有人觉得因为那句话自己就被诅咒啊？
无神论者表示一点也不恐怖。不过最后的结局有点意思，名为神鬼实则人心。
得多，但我就吃那一套。哪怕本片纯粹是一部"妈妈爱女儿"的催泪片我也能接受。p.s.小女孩很可爱，看到未成年人受苦实在不好受。
恐怖氛围不错，但是除此以外呢？到底有什么优秀之处，这种片子为什么能提名获奖？这大概是我最大的困惑～因为我不知道花了将近两个小时的时间，我到底看了一些什么？
話雖如此，片子開頭的氣氛營造的很好，視覺詭計、穿插的符號與暗示也滿有趣的。
全程伪纪录片的形式有点刻意，不如部分纪录片、部分上帝视角，那样可能会更自然，但邪神崇拜的部分太邪性了，非常好！诅咒观众的部分真没什么，这届观众太不行了。
C / 视点的随意变换比失控的拉皮德还要夸张，但也很少见有如此密集与堆叠的恐怖气氛，对镜头内一切的控制欲望都多于自然生成，但却好过无聊的固步自封。
我的建议是千万不要看，《咒》就拍了个这？臭鱼烂虾片
如果在影院看想必会被吓到骂娘，埋伏观众这一手也很恶趣味。但有几个段落没解决相机存在的合理性，属于伪纪录片通病了。主角的行为逻辑也过于作大死，应该设置得更聪明一点。
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