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)
補的片⋯很不錯
三个可爱的姑娘打扮得美美的准备去参加婚礼，（丝袜破洞用指甲油救急我也用过）吻了开车老头一脸的红唇印，悠扬的口哨声，颠簸车篮里的鸡蛋，那么美好……
英国皇家空军这么不专业吗？一开始炸错三个参加婚礼的女孩一个司机就已经很可恶，还让他们执行如此任务！！人命是疏忽大意可以原谅和挽回的吗！！！纳粹可恨，不专业的军人着实可恶！
结构松散，但最后三分之一部分实属震撼。视听也很出色。希望世界和平！
浅层认知:英国真是猪队友。
开头就暗示了大英皇家空军是瞎子。上帝是不是在捡铅笔，真的是戳心。
买了票才发现居然不是三级，海报都是骗人的，并不恐怖的暖心片，走怪奇物语的风格路线，虽然小妹子那条线并没有什么卵用，但最后的兄妹聚首还是让我在昏花的泪眼中依稀感受到近乎狼家兄妹重逢的情感冲击。当然了如果反派更creepy，小鬼魂玩得更嗨就更好了
人性的灰色地带。恶魔可能是天使，修女可能是深渊，战争让人心碎的同时却医好了男孩的喉咙。
我们都需要提起勇气挥出那一拳，当你挥出的那一刻，you know you can swing。父亲-男性-男孩，父权结构是恶的循环，只有依靠母亲的殉难和女孩的天真才能获得解脱，逃出生天。关于童年的悲伤。
儿童视角下的反战电影，最后长镜头下的奔跑让人泪目，是满怀期待到喜极而泣再到最后的如负释重！
是一部以原历史素材为基础的改编佳作。修女扎针，绝望中依然心系救赎的信仰型抑郁，虔诚灵魂挣扎动人。孩子视角看待战争，天真变体与想象，很有毕加索《格尔尼卡》的出发点。若童真生存于残酷世界，世界也是残酷的变形。
这剧情也太斯蒂芬·金了吧，反派拿着黑色气球这不《小丑惊魂》么？靠和小伙伴通灵逃出魔窟，进而重拾勇气的内向男主，这也分明就是金的那套成长主题。而且地下室段落拍得毫无想象力，最后反派竟然被自己蠢死了，替伊桑·霍克感到尴尬。
感觉很不错，剧情也很好，感兴趣的可以去看一下
🙃本年度最烂恐怖片预订。花开两朵，各开各的。一颗星给里面的男孩女孩，都好美好有气质。至于伊桑霍克这个角色🙄
剧情太弱了，比《小丑回魂》差的不是一点半点啊；不仅是电话的意象old，作用都是一个，一点惊喜没有；如果当幻觉讲某几个孩子的提示根本胡扯，开门密码和砸墙不可能；ethan线就没展开讲；妹妹是蛮可爱的，但故事线就没用；这最后🍊破案结局扯到以为是➖鈡独占结尾……
战争对于生命就是这么荒诞，美化战争就是犯罪。
Stop The War
勉强三星，剧本问题比较大，没有一个人物立得住
电影本身简单又老套，被吓到的一次是jump scare，反派也不够凶恶。但是我喜欢这种上世纪六十年代美国小镇的味道，是乔希尔他爹最擅长营造的故事氛围。片头做得很有代入感
英国皇家空军居然出现这种重大失误。最后母亲跑回家的长镜头情绪真复杂啊
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