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)
@ Netflix 全程关注吉伦哈尔的演技，但是前期铺垫太长，即使到最后可以知道真相，但都有点坐立不安。比起河正宇的《恐怖直播》都在一个空间内的表演，剧本上的起伏以及吉伦哈尔近几年都疯狂drama的嘶吼来比，还是觉得河正宇的更好，当然两个人的角色背景也不一样。但是看完后，还是会觉得在美国精神上受到迫害的个人以及家庭太多了，心理医生真是一个就业需求量大的好岗位。
典型的雷大雨小，故作玄虚，结果就是罪恶感这老套的事，啥元素都没用上，啥都没记住。
剧照做的样子有点悬疑惊悚。但是完全close shot Jake Gyllenhall的脸也撑不起太多的细节。是一个挑战很大的片子，演技很好。作品也比较完整，broke ppl save broke ppl.
true detective的编剧新作，Netflix请多多支持
这是多省钱的电影。。。主角全程室内隔着电话BBB
看过原版就觉得好像也就那样了（变成全程看Jake肱二头肌）（不是）🙊
三星半吧，吉伦哈尔一个人一个电话演全程，令人不断想起汤老师的“Locke”，同样是电话独角戏，本片的故事更加离奇一点，所以观影感受更好一点吧，但汤老师的演技私以为还是更胜一筹。
老吉的独场秀，有些暴躁，情感复杂。略微有些too much？ 紧张感是有的。落魄之人拯救落魄之人。
我说分这么低呢，原来又是翻拍，由于没看过原片只看过这部，我还是觉得挺好看的。
杰克吉伦哈尔的独角戏，剧情简单，表演发挥的空间也比较有限。
热知识：给Henry配音的萨斯加德是饰Joe的杰克-吉伦哈尔的姐夫，嗯，他老婆是玛吉-吉伦哈尔
小成本电影（吧？）讲得故事不错呀，看了一些评论之后觉得丹麦版应该更超越（或者致郁）一些。
我饶有兴致地看了一个精神病和另一个精神病扯了一个多小时，我可能也是精神病。
a one-man show. short but brief.
观影时，你需要熬过前面的剧情铺垫部分。
3年后看到了接客的美版，果然如3年前预测，接客未获得第93届奥斯卡最佳男主角提名
话务员独角戏这个设计挺好的，就是这个剧情稍微有点偷懒
拯救与自我拯救。有时候，明明我们自己很失败，却总认为自己牛B，自己的不成功是因为身边的猪队友。当你放下对自己以及对别人的苛责之后，你可能才会发现原来别人已经为你做了很多，原来自己才是那个混蛋。就影片而言，由于场景过于单一，故事情节又不足够吸引人，很容易产生审美疲劳，我才一点儿就弃片了。但男主的演技却值得称赞，几乎一人撑起整片的所有镜头。冲着男主的演技及本片对主要内涵，加1颗星
本来想打两星的，打的时候，一想这拍的什么东西，全程看不下去，想犯困！剧情也是莫名其妙，稀里糊涂的，全靠观众脑补，直接一星垃圾不送
基本复刻丹麦版，加上去的细节有些多余，全靠杰伦哈尔的演技撑住。
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