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)
抖音里吹的呜呜渣渣的，也就那样吧，没有新意
怪物出现以后，就这 ？？？这么简单就被一个女老师杀死了 ？？？
期待了一年 没有预告那么好看 剧情有些薄弱结尾太草率
警长最后也变成了食人魔?
没有预算的特效，没有逻辑的剧情，没有脑子的主角。导演你是有多穷啊，找个美国的农村地级市，和几个老农民就拍了。怪物累积出场时间3分钟不到。没预算就拍点乡村爱情吧。恐怖片不适合你
以北美地区民间传说里的鹿角食人魔“温迪戈”为主角的恐怖电影，开篇以阴沉抑郁的格调娓娓道来，孤僻小孩和他的老师痛苦且不堪回首的童年阴影成为了故事的暗线，然而这一设定到后面却并没有被过分提及，这也是本片一个败笔。除了怪物的设计还中规中矩以外，作为恐怖片真没什么亮点。
鹿角怪物与小男孩，这个概念时不时就会被搬上银幕，质量也是just so so .
就算是小学女教师单挑怪物，片子无聊就是无聊。倒是片中小镇风景如画。
变成Wendigo 的原因到底是什么?
一个被家暴、性侵的女老师如何拯救原生家庭糟糕的学生，还帮着学生把他那被恶魔吞噬、寄生的吸毒制毒的父亲给收拾了；全片无高潮；警察还是那么蠢战斗力为0；顺道批判了美帝的抚养制度；大失所望。
阴冷的色调和还算不错的摄影算是仅有的体面了，剧情薄弱，节奏缓慢，对鹿魔的形象一直藏着掖着，氛围没带起来，到了结尾也是草率收尾。
看直到黎明游戏直播的时候我就觉得陀罗绝壁会喜欢温迪戈好家伙嗯！
太爱Karen Gillan身上的那种不死不活和懵逼的冷幽默了，好希望她多演喜剧。虽然是一个讲述剧组拍戏的故事，但是人物塑造和情感展现上依然是Judd Apatow的味道，不管什么人的生活都是一地鸡毛，顺便讽刺一下疫情下的影视行业和虚伪的资本，闹腾且欢乐，节奏有点慢，不过越往后笑料越足，是那种可以哈哈大笑的点。Kate McKinnon和James McAvoy的客串太有意思了！
潮湿、冷清的小镇氛围营造的很好，剧情很差，且极端反智，例如弟弟受伤，孩子去矿坑了，正常人一定是送弟弟去医院或原地叫救护车，同时请求增援，女主竟然带着弟弟一个人去矿坑了，不怕弟弟失血过多丢命？不怕自己遭遇不测？极其反智！
美国西北挺适合北欧滤镜 又见闪灵双峰暮光之城同款迷雾冷山森林
单纯看到封面有David Duchovny进去叨扰了一下 啊真的不好意思（辣眼电影Orz 能集齐那么多男神真厉害啊
怪物的造型和场景氛围很好/海报设计好，剧情崩，基本符合我的心理预期。比较让我消化不良的设定是，这个故事里的魔不是一个可以被摧毁的具象的物体，也不是一个可以造成传染的变异病菌，而是一个抓不住的神话，一个宿主被摧毁，它会马不停蹄地去寻找下一个。对我来说这个设定不是高光点，而是败笔，因为它让我无法对这个故事产生合理的想象或者期待。
故事太过于简单，想表现的创伤后遗症和人的贪婪这两个主题有点脱节...
白嫖学校的放映，奉劝没看的降低期待，浪费设定一作。
2.5星，很喜欢这种阴郁画面气质，不过怪物太弱了点。
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