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)
對電影工業全方位放箭。電影節奏與演員演技都很好。
题材和角度让人耳目一新，可惜新的成分居多，趣味性方面对标《杰出公民》来说，还差了一筹
对全球电影行业的辛辣讽刺 冲奖派明星与清高派艺术家的对决 最初关注到这部电影只是因为这部叫主竞赛的电影入围了威尼斯主竞赛hhh 然而比起全程高能的剧情这点噱头简直不算啥 就不在此过多剧透了 导演对电影艺术的看法、对观众的期望已经要溢出屏幕了 感受到了如今电影寒冬下业内人士的呐喊与不满 潘潘和班德拉斯献出了很颠覆但超精彩的表演 就算路人观众对情节不够有共鸣 二人的飙戏看起来也绝对过瘾
后面的剧情都不重要了，我只想惹人怜爱的伊东苍。美好被杀死了，其他人的磨难，都不足以抵消。
人类的悲欢难以相通，哪怕已经非常努力。太累了，藉海豚云圆个场
VIFF21 #8 [Playhouse] 既然片名叫主竞赛了，真是一部特别适合在电影节看的crowd pleaser，全场笑声都没停过。最搞笑的是头顶“巨石”、吻戏ASMR以及粉碎机。表演真是太棒了，从头到尾都是大写的Acting！ Banderas演Felix这个角色真是好meta哈哈“追名逐利的好莱坞演员”。另外Penélope Cruz Floss dance I need this GIF asap!
讽刺浅薄，质疑高高在上，讥笑洞察秋毫。但是感觉还可以做得更有趣些。
店长的戏很薄弱，看点全在父亲身上，看他是如何从刚愎暴躁一步步柔软下来的。
中间有些地方能带人笑死，有些地方有点无聊，但是总体来说还是很好看的！
终于等到在西班牙公映；延续了《杰出公民》的犀利，剧作精准打击，cast有力道，光看几位的表演就很过瘾了。糟糕的战争和全球媒体环境制造的灰蒙蒙的日子，就适合看这样一部讽刺又好笑的片子。（而且是第一次在大银幕看班德拉斯的片子？浮夸激吻出场可还行......）
虽然的确有反思到日本谢罪文化的窒息和媒体报道的失效，但看完只想创死大爹不能不说是创作出现了严重偏差，而且配上这么和解的结尾反思了个寂寞啊。
太好看了…不是那种装疯卖傻式comedy, 笑点背后很多可以讨论的东西，场景里的建筑也很美。
很多有趣的东西但是镜头语言会不会过于简单了，失去了影像的力量挺可惜的
缓慢而悠长。2022-2-17 00:05:53
对我个人来说，还是很喜欢的一部片子。这次金鸡看的电影中，唯一一部让我觉得或许会愿意花这个票价看的电影。不仅仅是因为最近自己也在思考新闻和社会的关系，也是因为情感的描述细腻的让人感同身受。
观影过程挺愉快，到2/3处可以打4星；结尾稍弱，看完怅然若失。
对电影界 艺术圈的生猛讽刺/头顶悬空的巨石是一柄虚幻的达摩克利斯之剑/粉碎机粉碎了所谓的荣誉名利/戏中戏更是一种人生无常与戏剧虚构之间的关联/佩内洛普靓得惊人
影迷向讽刺喜剧，讽刺了电影奖项、流量派影星、学院派影星以及电影观众。如果你看不懂这片子，只能证明你对电影不感兴趣。演员、剧情都很好，相信威尼斯电影节上放映这片子时，看到“搅拌奖杯”情节时，大家肯定得笑成一片。
看海报就知道不简单，太虐心了。自始至终讨厌父亲这个人物，女孩的悲剧跟他的大男子主义和粗暴粗糙的待人态度脱不了关系，看他迟钝地意识到自己怎样亏欠了女儿、进而开始可笑地维护已死去女儿的名誉，只想对他说你早干什么来着。他不仅害了自己女儿，同样的方式又残害了另外两个年轻人。村长真是太惨太惨了，一个人孤独地硬撑着，最后实在撑不住自杀了，刚得救就被救他的人xsr，太惨了真的想跟他一起崩溃大哭。这就是一部压抑到能让观众跟里面角色一起精神崩溃的电影，导演挺厉害的，很多镜头都设计的很用心很带情绪
好看！介于文艺和商业之间，非常电影节的节奏，流畅精彩！
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