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)
人这一生都走在路上，我们与他人或擦肩而过，或成为挚友，在这条蜿蜒曲折道路的前方，等待着我们的到底会是什么呢？会是亲情、友情吗？还是爱情、分离呢？这次青春的底色依旧会是怀念追忆吗？这一切的一切。
角色不像傻子，只是这片子拍得像傻子。韩寒还希望观众也是傻子。
2.5星吧。前半段3.5星，后半段太拉垮了
看完之后呢，就和没看一样。
开头没那么差，有幽默有生活，后面怎么就拉胯了呢，结局太过狗血。
意图囊括的元素太多，情节有些割裂。太多戏剧化的堆砌反而使整体故事有些失真，缺乏说服力。
春节档里最差的一部，也是韩寒电影中最差的一部。多希望我能走进那道211的房门。
如果是小岛+纯爱情片，或者城市+现实题材，这两条路都可以选，可偏偏是把这4个东西搞在一起，什么都想说但都是浅尝辄止，故事的起承转合太生硬太凑巧。
韩导彻底摆烂，也罢
拜托韩老师你不要再拍这类片了，拍一个烂一个。
希望以后能够有机会在影院重温。以后作者化的电影不再参考评分了，太坑了。
“人们都睡了 人们都在自己的梦里 悠悠的徘徊寻找 他们期待明天 小小的希望和平凡的憧憬 也许能够实现” 四海
1、看过才能理解观众大年初一看死人的晦气和愤怒。2、刘浩存的戏路依然窄到只适合演没有台词的角色。3、玩名字梗要有常识。
大过年的，来个喜庆点的结尾呗。把自己家的老人交待给其他不太熟的人，没个真系亲属跟着，不可能吧。打不开酒店门在门口睡一晚上？这两是傻子吗？
这是我近半年最喜欢的一部电影！觉得韩寒一直保持着年轻人的热情，不断变换着身份，做的却是一样酷的事情。
剧情有点割裂，不过很多细节还是挺幽默的，依然保持着韩寒自己独特的风格，希望韩寒多拍一些这样的电影。
现实主义部分似乎是有情怀关照，但又不能明说。房卡怎样刷，含早不含早，又不像是故事所讲时代和这样形象的角色之间的事。逻辑牵强断裂，喜剧段子每每如此尴尬不合时宜，而关于摩托车的场面只剩自恋。
韩寒始终在描绘一种孤独，远离都市喧嚣 透露着年轻人的那种思想
好几首纯音乐都不错，海边的风吹鼓衣袖，吹翻衣摆，那时外面的世界都不重要了。刘昊然同学的眼神戏依旧击中我，卑怯又温柔，他什么时候可以和鹅姐再合作啊TAT
刻意的悲剧还不如刻意的伟光正，至少还传播点正能量。这是个啥，我命由天不由我！还是最倒霉的那种，但主题又不是倒霉。东拉西扯，东拼西凑，堆砌段子，整个一个四不像。3
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