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)
导演的能力显然没法驾驭，幸好演员皆在水准之上，我对王啸坤的印象还是带我去寻找……以至于快结尾才认出来。
本来以为是个讲地震的故事，没想到是在讲低保。确实是真正需要保护的人总是永远得不到保护，虽然演员演技很生硬，人设转换也太过文艺，但初衷是好的，哀痛是血淋淋的。
挺好看的，但悬疑推理部分也挺弱。五五开，两边都没讨好的感觉。
作品差强人意，但对比一下现在的上海讽刺意味极强
苦大仇深的无聊和困惑，濑濑敬久正常发挥罢了。
从二十世纪六十年代末讲起，一直讲到比二十世纪还要往后很多年，给故事带上了一些科幻未来的色彩，再加上片中出现的“干细胞永生”的话题。此外，男主角郭小鲁小时候经过爆炸事件后，产生了“慢速视觉”现象，所有快速的物体在他眼中都变得速度很慢。这导致后来他做临床手术和在打乒乓球方面的天赋异禀，成就了片中情节的传奇性。
悬疑部分被削弱到几乎没有。前半部分重点呈现的群戏也很没有必要，反而后半部分跳跃性叙事主线才是应该尽早呈现出来的东西。整体氛围实在是太苦大仇深了，沉闷压抑，拿腔捏调。是枝裕和常有社会性事件题材的故事，我们看他的电影却不会觉得目的性如此强烈，非常刻意地营造真事改编的氛围，让故事的艺术性和可看性双双削弱。
内容浮于表面，虽沉重却不深刻，但这片子值得疫情失控地区领导班子反复观摩学习并作深刻检讨。
我总觉着，人的生命还很漫长
奇怪的故事，奇怪的女二线，奇怪的落脚点，不如叫老不奇怪
砂糖的造型不咋好看，宽叔也机器人了点，kento在线，果耶妹子感觉没以前好看；至于eita，还是那种贱贱的感觉，
我觉得王朔在骗我高分，但又心甘情愿😂太怪了，太惊奇了😂
前半段挺好看，交叉展开，老人小孩，情绪情感悬疑都有。后半段要为“悲剧”注解，人物、主题甚至故事都圆得难看，颇为尴尬。
整体制作挺好，但是内容太薄弱。一个娇小的女人是怎么把两个高大男人拖到高层废弃屋的？从技术上就说不通。
看名字我以为是返老还童，结果先看了十分钟旁边配画面儿童剧，然后就是复古风甜蜜蜜但比甜蜜蜜差十万八千里，两个人物毫无灵魂，尤其王传君，结尾去搞干细胞都快给我整笑了，这是完全不值得拍出来的一部戏，只有烂尾缝针那段有点小趣味，但，竟然能做到和主题毫无关系
我觉得王朔在骗我高分，但又心甘情愿😂太怪了，太惊奇了😂
暴露了社会派推理的短板，推理部分过于幼稚，导演在社会问题层面又拍得格局很小。两边都不成功。
大地震下遭受重创的群体、弱者低保的申请、未尽善力的公职人员和三个互不相识却又家庭般温馨的痛者。
“他好的时候我不用在”，“那他要不好呢？”
题材不错，但拍得不痛不痒，让观众很难代入那么强烈的恨意，这就属于是拍烂了吧。
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