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)
谢苗怎么看怎么像刘松仁（。服化背景乃至剧情都很有些赏心悦目的陈旧古意，部分镜头也颇有美感。打戏精彩，最后给刀火焰附魔我大喊一声好酷啊。品出一丝十三刺客的味儿，真的相当不错。唯一遗憾的是有些剧情衔接不太顺畅
情节5，动作画面8，合计6.5/10分
谢苗总算接到了好电影！
国外的无脑快节奏爽片Johnwick和慢节奏爽片座头市都各成体系 本片节奏介于两者之间 小屏幕动作片新典范
小成本国产片拍成这样不容易，给五星鼓励一下！这部片也让我想去看因为拖延症一直没看的座头市系列了
故事弱了点。但可见出导演野心和潜力都不小。前后风格处理不一致，有精彩段落，成篇控制力稍差。国产武指和意境营造不错，特地加1星以资鼓励。
2022.07.02于南京高科荣境
还不错，虽然故事简单到极点，甚至有点粗糙，但至少讲好了一个故事。而且这部网大最大最吸引人的亮点其实是打戏，上次看到这么爽的打戏还是在吴彦祖演的美剧《荒原》里。
开头先是来了个精彩内容前置，生怕你们没耐心划走，这一看就是短视频导演，前面十分钟都是废话，从讨酒开始的主角行为举止太臭，后面明明是想相助，硬是装比说不带她一起走，到洛阳到发现有整容痕迹的琴女的演技是片中最佳，后面有个飞来飞去的打手像水浒传时迁兄弟，无意义的镜头太多，本来以为74分钟会很赶，没想到其实15分钟就能说完，浪费时间，果然不能指望这种片，7分是哪些傻逼打出来的？
侠味十足，难得的网大精品。大浪淘沙始见金，在成批量的网大工业流水垃圾中，能够发现一部及格线上，甚至是亮点十足的精品，实属惊喜加倍。
中规中矩武侠片，几个网红脸女角色演技尴尬死。可看可不看
像民间故事一样精美，不需要有太多内涵，好好把故事讲完就很棒了。
最后这个原力觉醒远程吸刀让乔治卢卡斯直呼内行
目中无人，心中有刀，三分因酒酿，七分为公道。
画面牛逼是真牛逼，洒酒放火平 A 开大那一下帅爆了！就是剧情真的是硬伤！
谢苗网大界熬出头了？有点无限之住人的意思。联瑞参与，剧本再磨磨大银幕可以有。
很意外居然节奏、演技、运镜、服化道都值得一提，尤其最后那个漆黑的夜里煞白追光下快意恩仇的一刀，颇具写意，嗯……如果不去想古代哪来的追光这件事的话。就是可惜了琴娘，但没有用琴娘做人质，倒是让瞎子可以无所顾忌地挥刀。
开场赌场戏其实拉低了预期，盲侠设定已有先例，快意恩仇，手起刀落，没那么多弯弯绕，简单直接，纯粹的武侠回归，反派小人做派暗箭伤人，但是这里面缺点也很明显，以一人之力灭大恶之帮，还能全身而退，法理何在？
自黄河大侠30年以来第二个瞎子大侠，情节很单薄，没有黄河大侠丰满，主要就是干。
你不给我个公道，我就给你个公道。平民防抗强权拥有天然的正义，所有一切都在类型片框架内，好处是没有拖泥带水，处理得很干净，韵味和动作设计如果内更精进空间。
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