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)
看前特地去查了一下维基，发现能拍的素材并不是很多，这部片子算是做到了物尽其用。整体来看挺套路的，非常常见的草根逆袭的爽片，但是节奏控制得挺好，张弛有度。前半段爱情线特别细腻，没有被传记片类型框得太死，买汽油的那段很打动人。后半段的职业线反倒没太多亮点，其中最后一场封神之战拍得很好，四面八方的目光投射在男主的身上，高燃的BGM和流畅的运镜成功将气氛推至顶点，最后一吻也收得刚刚好。做任何事情，都离不开日积月累的经验，有了经验，才有资格说自己已经做到了准备。
没第一部好看，这种续集属于强行找剧情，
小女孩太飒了。虽然这一部变成了动作片，不再有那种屏住呼吸的惊悚感，但是如果不当作恐怖片来看的话比上一部要好看。
为啥不能一起上呢……
后面剧情有点扯了，我一个正常人去找电门估计也要半个小时
老头他妈的太惨了，我不忍心给他打3星[破涕为笑]
明明就比第一部出彩。原来虎毒是会食子的，原来自家狗是会反水背叛主子的。
6.0(5⃣️)，意义不明的强行续集，不仅和第一部彻底脱离了关系，声效营造的惊悚氛围也几近流失。暴力和血腥桥段的力度都不够，没有屏住呼吸的紧张感的加持只能看个普通犯罪动作电影的复仇快感。无论情节上怎么往违背道德的方向设定，复仇反杀始终不能展现出该有的爽劲。也就Phoenix躲避绑匪在房子里游移的那段长镜头还挺不错，整体就是一部刚到及格线的低成本动作片
更偏向动作了，复仇很过瘾，只是不理解坏人花这么大代价这么作恶是为什么。。。米国人才辈出，感叹。
煽情高潮的部分稍有一点浮夸，其实真正打动人的反而是低谷时雪中徒步走几英里差点买不起汽油相互扶持那些点滴生活
剧情真是各种翻转腾挪，但是真的和第一部的那种惊悚完全是两种概念。第二部完全就是一个爆米花电影，处了暴力血腥血腥完全没有任何看点，完完全全没有一丝惊艳！
拍成这样，还好意思说续集，又被预告片骗了。
一盒传奇的诞生也有制造传奇的这些神奇人物。
面对棘手的事情不要放弃，事情只会越来越棘手；让我们为自己的坚持鼓掌，为支持的家人朋友鼓掌，为我们平凡而闪耀的人生鼓掌！
虽然制作尚可，但2还是落入了俗套，变成了一部普通的虐杀片。
比1好一点点，但老头人设和1有出入，1是死活要求孩子跟自己有血缘关系，现在并不要求了，随手捡了个孩子还养得挺开心。这孩子也是惨，亲父母那么变态，被收养了养父还是个变态，还好最后自由了
what a story...Defy all the odds...
宁可杀人也不杀狗，谁杀我狗我就杀他全家，这片子难道是和John Wick有联动？
觉得不好看，第一部的那种新鲜的紧张刺激感在这一部基本完全变成赤裸裸的血腥暴力了，剧情也失去了悬念和惊喜，看得让人基本没什么劲头也没什么期待感。这一部老头也没有上一部更具压迫感，也更不像个瞎子了。从密室搏斗转移至开放空间真的大大减少了这种惊悚电影的魅力。
Kurt Warner的生涯真的有那么一种传奇的色彩，从落选到进入联盟到拿到MVP和Super Bowl。这些看起来本不该一起发生，但他真的做到了。
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