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)
整体节奏还行，政治正确，但剧情略BUG，一整个印度拿一位妇女没办法
故事并没有心意，导演也用尽套路，只是，一个敢直面自己社会问题的国家，是值得尊重的，电影三颗星，加两颗星，是给希望！
前半段属于单调乏味节奏慢但又没那么差、主要适合给演员发挥（刷奖）的鸡肋故事，后面戏剧动态多了，观感好一些。
人世间的苦难是什么，也许是你往往不知道失去了什么，却又一直在找寻着什么……为亲情宁愿含冤入狱二十载却无悔，戴着有罪的标签而负重前行，世俗中遭遇的仇恨之恶更似镣铐般举步维艰，在周遭的一切都与之格格不入，人与人之间哪怕是一丝一毫的善意示好竟也是奢求的执念。
太催泪了。扎實，情感刻劃和表达，完全滿分。女主雖然遭遇不幸，氣氛壓郁，但全劇充滿愛和掙扎、人文關怀。
因为印象更加深刻
“幸福的秘密是自由，自由的秘密是勇气。”
电影不算好看，但是话题却很严肃，阿三真的不可小觑。他们一直在反省，迟早会慢慢改变，然后慢慢进步。
阿叉嘅電影，時不時都有好驚喜嘅作品~~要睇嘅朋友最好影評介紹都唔好睇，直接睇電影~~2個鍾多少少時間，一氣呵成~~絕對係尿急都會先忍住~~
【备注】每一个受害者背后都是一个家庭，每一次吞声饮气背后都是更可怕的隐忍报复，关注女性只能从女性入手
我感觉很屌，为什么豆瓣那么多装B的。这个不给人很多启发？人家可以拍这样的片对zf，我们拍这种能过审？
女性平权问题任重道远啊
印度是个奇怪的民族，一方面很有信仰，一方面又践踏善良。
现实了？
比起弱点，桑爪更应该借这个片拿奥斯卡。估计是公司没好好操作。
比起弱点，桑爪更应该借这个片拿奥斯卡。估计是公司没好好操作。
印度这些年的发展速度可以从少了载歌载舞的电影，和奈飞上的一些剧就能看得出来。虽然两极分化是常态，但看得出来富人的生活其实挺潇洒。说回电影本身，故事其实是老套的，意义却是重要的，唯一值得吐槽的其实反而是配乐，故意搞得很紧张其实啥都没，突然又低落缓慢的不合常理。
往事和现今交叉叙事，事情的原委逐步披露，镜头交织重复，编剧剪辑都很出色。
电影都只是美好结局
全片感情基调是隐忍、克制的，天气也是阴沉的，却在结尾处迎来爆发。妹妹在阳光里一步步走向姐姐，没有只言片语，就只是抱着她，一如小时候抱着如妈妈般存在的姐姐。此刻泪崩~
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