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)
电影很朴实，平静中隐约有种神秘力量，两个小时的时间，竟然在毫无波澜的剧情中不知不觉度过了，没有想看的兴奋点，到最后也没有大起大落。
拍出了另一面的西雅图，是码农的泡泡世界里没有的那一面
一个被关20年刑满出狱的颓废女，社会关系完全断裂，被歧视被贴上once a cop killer, always a cop killer 标签。找工作不易，谈恋爱不易….更主要的是自己亲人不相认，受害人家属不放过等等。这部发生在西雅图的故事，果然色调阴郁，气氛压抑，而且因为情节不夸张，故事贴近现实生活，才愈发令人深思，对曾犯过错但已服刑赎罪的人，社会应如何包容接纳？
换做是我也会做同样的事，没有一个父母是不愿意牺牲的
太理解她的苦闷了，以前有一度觉的是会这样，但是爱是世间万物的良药，可以让人获得救赎。
律师行见养父母那场戏，
过度整容打针缘固吗？还是剧情需要特意扮丑？脸是僵的如行尸有肉般，第一印象差评。
那如果你是她，你如何让生活重见阳光重新洗白？离开这个地方隐姓埋名？
人物的設置都還挺好的，都有他的功能，但空間留得並不足，似乎所有的力氣都給了女主，但這就顯得結局特別的爛尾。
前面还挺吸引人的，没想到有前科的人重新做人如此之难。我以为大家都能对改过自新的人能不计前嫌呢，结尾结束的太仓促，不能让人信服。
剧本很好，里面的人物塑造很丰满。整个故事层层递进，叙事中带点悬疑。桑婆的演技炉火纯青，眼神中有沧桑与隐忍，坚定与不疑，值得二封。
值得奥斯卡最佳音效奖和最佳音效剪辑奖提名，和去年的《金属之声》一样声音细节音效层次感太强了！故事还是偏简单偏老套了，前面节奏太慢，后面还行。桑德拉•布洛克表演也还行，不过份量还是不够啊！
槽点有点多，不合情理，然后5岁+20不是25岁吗？怎么还是高中生？
桑德拉·布洛克真的太好了。躺椅交谈那处的眼神真的太好了。隐忍，坚忍，不说。
意识到女主角全然是一个高贵的好人时，我觉得这部片的劲儿就全卸了。
值得奥斯卡最佳音效奖和最佳音效剪辑奖提名，和去年的《金属之声》一样声音细节音效层次感太强了！故事还是偏简单偏老套了，前面节奏太慢，后面还行。桑德拉•布洛克表演也还行，不过份量还是不够啊！
Sandra bullock nice!
是阶级不可逾越不可改变只能以命抵命的冷酷。
不算多好，但也不差。故事走向其实不难猜，包括当养父母亲女儿去见女主，很容易猜到接下来就会被错当妹妹给绑走，真相的揭示手法也比较普通。导演这次的视听不如前作<系统破坏者>，只有闪回部分还能看到一些。桑影后演技和表演当然没什么问题，就是快60逐渐MJ化的脸实在僵。
是我喜欢的调调，比起相信掌握命运，我更相信面对命运的无力与无奈。只是如果没有提前看结局，我可能撑不到最后。主动看剧透后，还是有动力看下去的。所以纠结4星还是5星
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