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)
喜欢故事3，最后一个故事拖后腿，前几个都有单独成片的故事性。
太血腥啦。我是双手捂着眼睛看完的。眼睛从指缝中偷偷看。
机械飞升的那个故事最好 希望这个系列继续拍下去
糊糊的看得我好使劲儿 最喜欢raatma和爆炸吸血鬼
没想到这个系列竟然还能回归，虽然整体质量平平。电影定了个94年的大背景，但这不应该成为渣画质的借口吧。四个故事，前两个很普通，第三个清晰度总算比较高，情节也完整，但改造人的设定实在是太老套了，跟《F军团》简直如出一辙。第四个就是垃圾，还顺带讽刺一把红脖子。第三个又是印尼的故事，看了下导演阵容原来是第二部的老伙计了。这次的主线警队突袭毒贩巢穴也是挺无聊的，无非就是为了片尾带出内鬼和VHS教团的设定。总的来说恐惧感也就那样，邪典劲儿依然十足，视觉效果上虽然是伪纪录，但真实感并不算强，晃来晃去也看不清。这次的警察是真惨，联想到《惊悚50州》第一季最后一个故事，话说那个放到VHS里也挺合适的。这个系列堂而皇之的拍这种地下邪典也算是业内特色了，情节只要有创意、不拉胯就不缺观众，这种猎奇题材永远会有市场
1-4里贯穿始终的这条线只有第二部的节奏拿捏的刚刚好...
[视]R血，shudder流媒体。超出预期，四个故事，推荐前三个，前两个故事铺垫，第三个故事高潮
本以为四个故事层层嵌套，还在思考什么教堂上自言自语的男孩与老鼠人的逻辑关系，看到后面发现就是四个故事各讲各的乐子电影🤪以后看电影不想带脑子了
纯粹感官刺激的短片集。算是四个相对完整的小故事吧，外面再套一个大故事。下水道鼠人，恐怖守灵夜半头尸回魂，疯狂科学家人机混血实验，美国红脖子囚禁吸血鬼但却控制不了自己内心的傻逼念头。大故事是警察追缉这几盘录像带的幕后真相，其中竟然就有录像带炮制者。
6分。很血腥，除了人机结合那段，其他故事一般。
导演们脑子有大洞，电影里一帮人脑子有大病，我想用傻逼来形容应该不失贴切
有些许江郎才尽的势头，稍显失望，大招全放前面了，后面越来越不行，应该反过来，这样观感能好很多，这种很有年代的影像质感倒是增添了很多粗砺的恐怖感，以及印尼的故事依旧不错。
五星给机械飞升(part3: the subject)
没有当初看一二部那种醍醐灌顶的感觉了，一二个故事可以直接跳过，喜欢第三个故事的朋友推荐去看《弗兰肯斯坦的军队》
伪记录短片大拼盘，很无聊。故事、氛围、特效、演技什么的都很平庸，第三个还行，稍微看到一些人性的探讨，这个被改造的女孩真是惨，想要活下去有错吗？
从第三部开始就往cult向转感觉有点无脑了...
What the fuck...印尼那个片段很适合做游戏，仅此而已。
刚开始还挺有兴趣的，然后就发现是一小段一小段拼凑起来的故事就很无聊。 人和机器融合还算有点意思。
伪纪录片的形式电影的经典，依旧是一个主线做过渡，里面穿插4个故事，对于故事没什么好多说的，有好有坏，第三个最经典，第二个不行，道具制作真的满分，拍完电影拿去做鬼屋都能再赚一票。
血腥也够惊悚也有，再稍稍加点黑色幽默就已经及格了
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