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)
挑战到我底线的恐怖片，因为它完美地示范了如何把恐怖片拍的很烂但看起来又没那么烂。另外，连Ti West这种水平的独立恐怖片导演都能沦陷成这个样子，A24的“企业风格”到底能把美国恐怖片搞到多烂不得不说很令人期待。
结果……就这？
类型实验很会玩的导演。情色与恐怖画面穿插，并在某些关键场景高度重合，创造出讽刺的意味。仿古影像与暴力美学都可圈可点，不过节奏处理不佳，导致前半段过于缓慢，削弱和冲淡了后半段的紧张激烈感。性压抑的根源指向传统保守势力的洗脑，这种批判的角度值得肯定；不过衰老的话题却让人不太舒适……米娅·高斯一人分饰两角的演技最惊艳。
比较老派的恐怖片风格，米娅分饰两角真没看出来。
用同一个演员演女主和老太，还有多次镜头暗示两人的身份重叠，对性欲和宗教的探讨不乏深刻，甚至会让人有一丝同情老太。不只是单纯的血腥cult片，剪辑、配乐和调度都很有想法，一些频闪镜头让人眼前一亮。
挺不错的。节奏把握的好，jump scare 也恰到好处。为近几年的老人恐怖片挖掘了新内容。很期待看老人吸食年轻人精气肉体鲜血的。。。
磨坊电影的老饭新吃，经典元素一锅端（色情片摄制组、荒郊野岭杀人魔、宗教与电视媒介、池塘裸泳与鳄鱼等等），同时又讲了一些新时代下的主题，如色情电影与女性意识剥削与唤醒的双重关系，以及老年人的性心理。一些反高潮的处理也埋了巧思，像反派的意外死亡，跳吓段落的后置。不足之处是情节稍微简单粗暴了点，后半段视听表现很贫瘠。
porn+cult？a24真是特立独行。欲求不满的老太太真可怕。——方舱观影1
一个简单并且庸俗的故事，观后感就是老年人性生活也是不可忽视的。如果单纯考虑恐怖元素，该片还有那么一点点可看度。
结果……就这？
在剪辑和情节设计上未免太复古了，完美复刻b级恐怖片（单纯说剥削似乎也不是）和学生惊悚片作业中劣质与呆笨的特色，美学上来说拍得还不如《刺心》。对老年性欲及野心的纳入当然很亮眼，但考虑到被这部电影底色决定的猎奇化表现方式，你就很难说它真的亮眼，真能找到价值的路径只有被宗教与文化元素包裹起来的phycho——所以说真的非常复古。
剪辑:★★★
确实很有艺术性！！只是导演有几个片段的快剪让我不明所以，米娅高斯恐怖片女神yyds！以及老年人x生活值得关注
女主这种傻逼真就靠主角光环活到了最后啊……小电影套排小电影～
看完《德州电锯杀人狂》后才发现这部不仅照搬了某些结构设定，更是对于先前杰作中核心情绪的拓写。开头的镜头由谷仓内推向门外，画幅扩展，年老色衰的恐怖片类型回光返照。创造影像的主体在被带入“旧片场”的手持摄影机与早已潜伏在此的视点之间来回争夺，被认为记录下血腥片段的胶片中可能只是一些色情桥段而已。后半段实在有点A24通病了，叙事被高概念很吃力地拖着往前走，巧则巧矣。
女主之前拍过达科塔约翰逊的翻拍版《阴风阵阵》，怎么又接Cult恐怖片……
3+，性是恐怖片的第一生产力。致敬恐怖经典，不过是解而不是结，玩了一把再类型化。
居然有感说被感动到哭了，就这？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？
质感来说真的挺一般，有故弄玄虚也有哗众取宠，有小聪明没啥大智慧。
79年，几个人跑去德州一农场拍A片，租了农场老头的一间大屋子。谁知道农场老头老太是两变态杀人狂魔。前半段是拍A片，摄影师带了女朋友一起来，女朋友原来是现场录音，后来看的不错说自己也要演，摄影师气的要死最后还是拍了。然后到了晚上就是大屠杀，一个个被干掉，最后只有摄影师女朋友杀了老头老太，然后逃了出来。
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