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)
动物电影里的人类不仅多余，还显得自作多情… 加拿大好美啊，这两年要找机会去。
抄袭中国古代“黄粱一梦”、“南柯一梦”等等
镜头语言真赞，基本可以入编画面阅读理解教材，色彩很妙，运镜略有不及，故事性不提也罢，对非教徒观众不甚友好。大胆预测，奥斯卡也许有两三个提名。
童话感的画面太好看，不能在影院看可惜了（今天北京也大雪）
看完倒是想到抖森在2013 Nerd HQ里引用的那句“人皆有两世，第二世始于你意识到只有一世”临砍头那段意识流好评
美术很棒，有表现主义的风格。如何能成为一名真正的骑士是主人公面临的问题，也是电影想要探讨的。总体像是奇幻元素的公路片。
拍得挺好，仔细一琢磨，故事真无聊。我管你骑士光荣不光荣，憋了半天终于要面对死亡了，看你表现好把你给放了。这跟小时候老师看你捣蛋之后认错态度端正不叫家长了有什么区别？男人就尊严这点破事，讲来讲去还没讲够吗。
这尴尬的表演，这脑瘫的剧情，两颗星给狮子和狼
影像和男主表演都不错。估计原始情节也过于简单，基本改编成了意识流，反正原来西方神话的逻辑我们也不大对路。
故事没看懂。对这个传说也不了解。演员们的演技都是一流的
这故事看电影时经常看到美国家长给孩子做睡前阅读。
年度怪异电影，一边被吓得瑟瑟发抖一边疯狂大笑。什么邪典剧情。如果不是男主是Dev Patel，我觉得我是看不下去的。
画面摄影服美音乐都很不错，但拍的就是放慢了2倍速讲一个老土的故事，跟2015年那版的麦克白有一拼了。
我承认我没看懂
啥呀。。。神话传说还是恐怖故事？啥也不是。。。
以为是个惊悚片结果其实是个文艺片；高文骑士最后真正拥有了勇气 最后那一段见到绿衣骑士然后看见未来的戏才是这个片子的精华啊；a24的片子我看了两部 还是上一部遗传厄运好看些
服化道可以。但是讲成了一个终其一生不上道的妈宝男故事……
挡在你胸前的盔甲，保护着我让我心疼
关于电影本身，太难以解释。不过我想说说Dev Patel，他跟以前的气质真是天差万别，我一直觉得他是那种too much的演员，其他片子里可以原谅，但这里与其他演员相较起来就实在是太过违和。不过Alicia真的是好极了。
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